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Environmental Kuznets Curve Case Study

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In this paper we shall discuss the relationship that exists between growth and environmental concerns by adopting the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) model. My research is based on the examination of Garbage that is normally generated, the Gross Domestic Product per Capita and the stake that they hold in the in the Gross Domestic Product. The method of Least squares can be adopted owing to the ease in calculations. From regression, we can see that garbage has a great influence. In this case we shall use Taiwan and Korea whereby theoretically it’s shown that they give a U shaped EKC diagram. For Japan though, its economic growth seemingly is not affected by the amount of garbage that is generated. Probably it could be affected by …show more content…

We have a paper authored by Van den Bergh in conjunction with Opschoor. The paper was done in 1998 and for them they used carbon dioxide, Nitrogen oxide and Sulphur (IV) oxide. They tested their data to the EKC in a variety of European countries and the found a number of shortfalls with this model. According to them, this model never provides a permanent solution for the causes of pollution. What happens according to them is the shifting of problems instead of solving the problems. Another shortfall found was that the problem could not be used to make future predictions; it can only be applicable for the present economy (Bruyn, …show more content…

V shall represent the service zone or share of the GDP, α will be the graph intercept. β1, β2 and β3 are the coefficients that we are supposed to estimate. The hypothesis we formulated stated that the garbage amounts would decline with a decrease in the GDP share by the manufacturing sector, the share held by the service sector will as a result increase too. Other factors such as environmental policies were tried and there was no major influence on the garbage amounts. K represent the independent

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