Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/157248 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2017-16
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The authors examine the role of governance and vulnerability to climate change in green growth using a global panel dataset. They find that governance has a positive effect on environmental performance and vulnerability to climate change has a negative effect. Promoting good governance and reducing climate change vulnerability can thus contribute to a cleaner environment. They find qualitatively similar results for the sub-sample of high-income countries, but governance has an insignificant effect for the sub-samples of upper-middle-income, and lower-middle-and-low-income countries. High-income countries have strong environmental policies to protect the environment whereas other countries need to strengthen their relatively weak environmental policies. This suggests a need for substantial economic, technological and financial support from the international community for strengthening the environmental institutional capacity of developing countries.
Subjects: 
governance
vulnerability to climate change
air quality
PM2.5
green growth
JEL: 
Q56
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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