Impacts of Regional Productivity Growth, Decoupling and Pollution Leakage

Cathy Xin Cui; Nick Hanley; Peter McGregor; Kim Swales; Karen Turner; Ya Ping Yin

Impacts of Regional Productivity Growth, Decoupling and Pollution Leakage

Cathy Xin Cui, Nick Hanley, Peter McGregor, Kim Swales, Karen Turner, Ya Ping Yin

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This IPPI Occasional Paper examines the issues of decoupling regional economic growth and pollution and the extent to which pollution effects spill-over regional and national borders. Specifically, a UK, regionally-disaggregated, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is used to investigate the relationship between economic growth and the level of CO2 emissions posited by the ‘Environmental Kuznets Curve’ (EKC) conjecture. The simulation results suggest that at the regional level the existence of an EKC relationship depends on the source of regional growth and how the EKC relationship is specified.

Original language	English
Publisher	University of Strathclyde
Commissioning body	International Public Policy Institute
Number of pages	31
Publication status	Published - Mar 2015

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Name	International Public Policy Institute Policy Brief
Publisher	University of Strathclyde

Keywords

IPPI
regional CGE models
labour productivity
regional economic growth
Environmental Kuznets Curve
embedded pollution
carbon footprints

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Investigating the pollution content of trade flows and the importance of 'environmental trade balances' in addressing the problem of climate change
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Investigating the pollution content of trade flows and the importance of 'environmental trade balances' in addressing the problem of climate change
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DOI: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-850527
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Impacts of regional productivity growth, decoupling and pollution leakage
Cui, C. X., Hanley, N., McGregor, P., Swales, K., Turner, K. & Yin, Y. P., 27 Jun 2016, In: Regional Studies. 51, 9, p. 1324-1335 12 p.
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Impacts of regional productivity growth, decoupling and pollution leakage

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