Testing Kuznets Curve For The Socialist And Capitalist Period Of Romania
Abstract
In the course of time much has been written about therelationship existing between economic growth and the levelof pollution. Some authors believed that for the present levelof pollution poor countries are the ones responsible becausethey dont take into consideration the degradation of theenvironment due to the fact that their main concern is to cover the basic needs of the population and to achieve economic growth. Another category of authors claimed that strongly developed countries that most times are also the ones to be the most industrialised and preoccupied by economic indicators to be the ones responsible. The one that makes to some extent the connection between the two types of theories is Kuznets which considers that up to a certain level of the GDP poor countries are responsible and after a certain point of the GDP is passed the problem of environmental protection appears on their list of priorities. In the present paper this theory was tested in the case of Romania during the socialist period as well as the capitalistone.
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