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Title
Environmental Quality and Economic Development
Author(s)
Chimeli, Ariaster Baumgratz
Issue Date
2001
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Braden, John B.
Department of Study
Economics
Discipline
Economics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Environmental Sciences
Language
eng
Abstract
This dissertation contributes to the construction of a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between environmental quality and economic development. In pursue of this goal, I specialize to dynamic growth models in which pollution is treated as an externality generated in the production sector and affecting the consumption sector. I consider the transitional dynamics and the steady state of not only the typical nations that start their development with a small stock of capital and a large stock of the environment, but also an important group of developing economies where the opposite seems to be true, namely the transition economies of the post Soviet era. Furthermore, I explore the role of different forms of technological heterogeneity across countries as a key determinant of the relationship between environmental quality and economic development.
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