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    Income-Environment Relationship: How different is Asia?

    Islam, Nazrul | June 1997
    Abstract
    This paper shows that there is no rule that the environment has to first deteriorate with economic growth and improve only later. There is no absolute, invariant income-environment relationship (IER) to imply such a rule. This is shown by estimating IER for Asia and comparing it with the same for other regions of the world. It is found that IERs differ widely across regions and across pollutants, and do not usually conform to the shape implied by the Environmental Kuznets’s Curve hypothesis. This indicates that the role of income in explaining pollution dynamics is limited. With appropriate policies, pollution level can be kept low even during the initial stage of economic growth. In particular, policy measures are urgently needed in Asian countries to reduce solid particulate matter in air, and nitrate and arsenic in water.
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    Islam, Nazrul. 1997. Income-Environment Relationship: How different is Asia?. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/5375.
    Keywords
    Environmental Resources
    Policy Environment
    Regulatory Environments
    Sustainable Development
    Environmentally Sustainable Development
    Ecodevelopment
    Development Challenges
    Natural resources policy
    Development policy
    Resources development
    Forest site mapping
    Environmental Management
    Nature Protection
    Environmental Conservation
    Landscape Protection
    Environmental impact statements
    Agricultural landscape management
    Sustainable forestry
    Sustainable horticulture
    Environmental indexes
    Protection of environment
    Environmental geotechnology
    Natural areas
    Natural beauty conservation
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