Economic Growth, Health, and the Choice of Polluting Technologies: The Role of Bureaucratic Corruption
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Keywords
Corruption; Economic Growth; Health; Pollution; Productivity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- O44 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Environment and Growth
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2013-10-05 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-ENV-2013-10-05 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2013-10-05 (Health Economics)
- NEP-RES-2013-10-05 (Resource Economics)
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