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| Author: | Lopez, R. Mitra, S. |
| Title: | Corruption, pollution, and the kuznets environment curve |
| Journal: | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
2000 : SEP, VOL. 40:2, p. 137-150 |
| Index terms: | CORRUPTION POLLUTION ENVIRONMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the implications of corruption and rent-seeking behavior by the government for the relationship between pollution and growth. Cases of both cooperative and non-cooperative interaction between the government and the private firm are studied. It is shown that corruption is not likely to preclude the existence of an inverted-U-shaped-Kuznets environmental curve under both these cases. However, for any level of per capital income the pollution levels corresponding to corrupt behavior are always above the socially optimal level. |
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