- Title
- The environmental Kuznets curve: a literature survey
- Creator
- Nahman, Anton
- Creator
- Antrobus, Geoffrey G
- Date Issued
- 2005
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143191
- Identifier
- vital:38209
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2005.00008.x
- Description
- Literature on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is examined, focussing on the possibility that the EKC may be explained by trade patterns. If significant, this trade effect would cast doubt on the oft‐stated conclusion that economic growth automatically leads to environmental improvement. Research has been insufficient, although a number of promising approaches have been developed. Although evidence on the pollution‐haven hypothesis is mixed, there is enough to suggest that the EKC development path may not be available to today's developing countries. Other problems cast doubt on whether the EKC exists in any relevant sense at all.
- Format
- 16 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Economics
- Relation
- Nahman, A. and Antrobus, G., 2005. The environmental Kuznets curve: a literature survey. South African Journal of Economics, 73(1), pp.105-120.
- Relation
- South African Journal of Economics volume 73 number 1 105 120 May 2005 1813-6982
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