Environmental Quality and Development: Is There a Kuznets Curve for Air Pollution Emissions?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that IGO membership can improve the environmental performance of developing countries, by linking different issues, promoting the general idea of environmental sustainability and providing a channel through which these countries receive technologies and resources necessary to reduce pollution.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these, and concludes with a discussion of how environmental policy in developing countries differs from that found in developed countries in light of their focus on degradation effects.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the economic factors underlying the current scenario of environmental deterioration, and the role of innovations in achieving sustainable development, and found that innovations can facilitate the achievement of EKC at lower levels of growth.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors constructed a micro-level longitudinal dataset containing 41,419 firms with 148,877 observations during 2000-2013 to develop a fine-grained understanding of the environmental implications as firms closely follow the recent technology trend in automation and intelligence.