This paper provides an overview of recent econometric advances on testing of functional form with semiparametric methods and their application to the estimation of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). The EKC in environmental economics is estimated using panel data models and provides a fertile ground for the adoption of recent panel data developments. The paper provides a discussion of recen...

In recent literature the famous Kuznets relationship between inequality and income has been reformulated in terms of levels of inequality and subsequent rates of growth. In this paper we criticize the World Bank data set on which these studies have been based, and present contrasting evidence on pay differentials derived from the 2000 release of the UNIDO Industrial Statistics, a rich source of...

Simon Kuznets was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in economics for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth, yet, two decades after his death it is only in the guise of the “Kuznets curve” that he may be found in the literature of growth or of economic development. In this paper I review Kuznets’ contribution to growth focusing particularly on his analysis of the costs and benefit...

Article history: Received 16 May 2007 Received in revised form 18 July 2007 Accepted 19 July 2007 Available online 16 August 2007 As a result of India's extremely rapid economic growth, the scale and seriousness of environmental problems are no longer in doubt. Whether pollution abatement technologies are utilized more efficiently is crucial in the analysis of environmental management because i...

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis postulates an inverted-U-shaped relationship between different pollutants and per capita income, i.e., environmental pressure increases up to a certain level as income goes up; after that, it decreases. An EKC actually reveals how a technically specified measurement of environmental quality changes as the fortunes of a country change. A sizeable ...

the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis postulates an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and many local environmental health indicators, while some economists argue that the relationship follows other patterns. By using an overlapping generations (OLG) model, we focus on technological effects, where the properties of the existing pollution abatement technologies cou...

sustainability in 19 different arab countries has been studied through investigating the relationship between economic development and energy consumption. data collected has been studied as a whole (total countries data) and as segregated data (oil exporting and oil importing countries data) i.e. three categories. the regression model used measures the effect of independent and control variable...