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

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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.

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  • Parlow, Anton, 2014. "Environmental Pressure and Armed Conflict - Is there an empirical Kuznets Curve for Myanmar?," MPRA Paper 55828, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Empirical Kuznets Curve; GDP; Armed Conflicts; CO2-emissions;
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    • O5 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

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