Abstract:Climate change is today one of the greatest challenges of the global community. Further economic growth is often advocated as a solution to any problem of environmental degradation, after an intermediate phase of higher environmental degradation, because of the previous steps of the economic growth. This proposal is embodied in the so-called Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, which is based on the original Kutznets thesis concerning income inequality issues. The EKC hypothesis has been tested on var… Show more
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