Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55184 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 659
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, Department of Economics, London
Abstract: 
This study examines the long-run relationship between industrial pollution and income in China using provincial panel data. Four types of pollutants are modelled: waste water, solid wastes, soot and SO2 emission. Two types of income effects are considered: the scale and growth effects. The study finds little evidence of inverse U shape curves as postulated by EKC models; pollutant emissions may go positively or negatively with income irrespective of income levels whereas certain sign of alleviation in pollutant concentration due to income growth is discernible; trade is found to be insignificant while the hazardous nature of pollutants appears to be an important factor for heterogeneity in the income effect estimates; the heterogeneity cautions us against simple panel model specification.
Subjects: 
environmental Kuznets curve
pollution
economic growth
trade
heterogeneity
JEL: 
C51
O53
Q53
Q56
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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