Arbeitspapier
Freedom, growth, and the environment
A number of recent papers have found that certain measures of pollution worsen and later improve as income per head increases. It is widely believed that the downhill portion of this inverted-U curve reflects an induced policy response; that, as incomes rise, citizens demand improvements in environmental quality, and that these demands are delivered by the political system. In this paper we find that, for a number of pollution variables, an increase in civil and political freedoms significantly improves environmental quality. For other pollution variables, however, we find that freedoms have no effect. The former finding suggests that political reforms may be as important as economic reforms in improving environmental quality worldwide. The latter finding hints that the observation that pollution levels fall with income once income becomes high enough may not always reflect an induced policy response.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 94.1998
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water
- Thema
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Economic growth
Air and water pollution
Civil and political freedoms
Wirtschaftswachstum
Umweltbelastung
Freiheit
USA
Welt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Barrett, Scott A.
Graddy, Kathryn
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
- (wo)
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Milano
- (wann)
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1998
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Barrett, Scott A.
- Graddy, Kathryn
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Entstanden
- 1998
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