Proceedings of 11 th
Asian Business Research Conference
26-27 December, 2014, BIAM Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, ISBN: 978-1-922069-68-9
Janifar Alam
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth (GDP per capita) and environmental pollution (carbon dioxide emissions) in some High and
Low income countries based on the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis, using World Bank data over 1972-2010. By estimating the EKC for the period
19722010, this study can’t prove the existence of EKC “U” shape for both high and low income countries. This study also tries to justify that- Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions appear to increase with low-income countries and decrease with highincome countries. But the study finds that carbon dioxide emissions not only increase with low income countries but also high income countries.
Field of Research: Environment and National Economy
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Janifar Alam, Lecturer, School of Business, University of Information Technology and Sciences, GA-37/1 Progoti
Sarani, Baridhara J-Block, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh. E-mail: sumi_janifar@yahoo.com