Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101972 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 37.2014
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper examines the implications of the mutual causality between environmental quality and economic growth. While economic growth deteriorates the environment through increasing amounts of pollution, the deteriorated environment in turn limits the possibility of further economic growth. In a less developed country, this link, which we call “limits to growth,” emerges as the “poverty-environment trap,” which explains the persistent international inequality both in terms of income and environment. This link also threatens the sustainability of the world’s economic growth, particularly when the emission of greenhouse gases raises the risk of natural disasters. Stronger environmental policies are required to overcome this link. While there is a trade-off between the environment and growth in the short run, we show that an appropriate policy can improve both in the long run.
Subjects: 
Environmental Kuznets Curve
Limits to Growth
Poverty-Environment Trap
Sustainability
Natural Disasters
JEL: 
Q5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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