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| Author: | Barrett, S. |
| Title: | Is economic growth good for the environment? |
| Journal: | Economic Outlook
1997 : FEB, VOL. 21:2, p. 18-23 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS GROWTH ENVIRONMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Is economic growth good or bad? One reason for thinking it may be bad is that growth may be associated with an increase in environmental degradation. New empirical evidence, however, indicates that growth need not harm the environment. It suggests that, though environmental quality may worsen with growth in poor countries, it eventually improves with growth once countries become sufficiently rich. Figure 1 presents an example from the literature. It shows that sulphur dioxide emissions per capital first increase with real income per capita and later decrease. |
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