We investigate determinants of household firewood collection in rural Nepal, using 1995-96 and 2002-3 World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data. We incorporate village fixed effects, endogenous censoring, measurement error in living standards and heterogeneous effects of different household assets. We find no evidence in favor of the poverty-environment hypothesis. The evidence...

The hypothesis about the link between savings rates, investment, and economic growth produced the Kuznets U-shaped curve hypothesis, which presumes that for promoting economic growth, government should allow rich people to become richer because they will contribute to national savings and thus to investment. Although incessantly criticized, this theory continues to influence current leaders in ...

environmental kuznets curve (ekc) is one of the known concepts in environmental economics developed dramatically over the last twenty years ago. one of the advances in studying the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality is concerning the spatial autocorrelation of ecological phenomena. the rationale behind spatial environmental kuznets curve (sekc) is similar to ekc incl...