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Is Economic Growth Good for the Environment?
Author(s) -
Barrett Scott
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
economic outlook
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1468-0319
pISSN - 0140-489X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0319.00064
Subject(s) - economics , environmental quality , quality (philosophy) , development economics , public economics , natural resource economics , political science , philosophy , epistemology , law
Recent research shows that environmental quality may improve with economic growth, at least in the high‐income countries. Scott Barrett reviews this research. He argues that it is not very robust and has little significance either for economic or environmental policy.