Desperately Seeking Environmental Kuznets

Marzio Galeotti and Alessandro Lanza

No 137, Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano

Abstract: The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U “environmental Kuznets” curve. In the case of a major greenhouse gas, CO2, however, the evidence is at best mixed. This paper attempts to shed further light on this issue by using a newly developed data set covering over one hundred countries around the world for the last twenty five years and by considering alternative functional forms together with an effort to rigorously discriminate among competing alternatives.

Keywords: Environment; Growth; CO2 Emissions; Panel Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C23 O13 Q30 Q32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-06-01
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Working Paper: Desperately seeking (environmental) Kuznets (1999)
Working Paper: Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets (1999)
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