Environmental Pressure and Armed Conflict - Is there an empirical Kuznets Curve for Myanmar?

Parlow, Anton (2014): Environmental Pressure and Armed Conflict - Is there an empirical Kuznets Curve for Myanmar?

Abstract

Empirical Kuznets Curves (EKC) usually imply an inverted U-shaped relationship between a pollutant and per capita GDP growth. We initially find an inverted U-shaped EKC between CO2-emissions and per capita GDP for the period 1960 to 2004. However, once accounting for a major uprising in 1988 in Myanmar, we can identify two different growth regimes. This structural break changes the nature of the EKC relationship.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Empirical Kuznets Curve, GDP, Armed Conflicts, CO2-emissions
• Subjects: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O53 - Asia including Middle East

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