Journal
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 375-383Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.05.003
Keywords
Transnational linkages; Trade; Spillover; Developing; Carbon dioxide; Sulfur dioxide
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- United Kingdom's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [RES-000-22-2753]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/G021694/1, ES/F03671X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/F03671X/1, ES/G021694/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Arguments about the positive influence of growing transnational linkages have typically focused on their role in diffusing environmentally superior innovations which help to raise countries' environment-efficiency. The present article empirically tests these claims by examining whether developing countries' linkages with more CO2- and SO2-efficient economies contribute to domestic improvements in CO2- and SO2-efficiency. Our large-N, statistical findings caution against some of the efficiency-oriented optimism voiced by supporters of globalization. Although imports ties with more pollution-efficient countries are found to spillover into improved domestic CO2- and SO2-efficiency, neither transnational linkages via exports, inward foreign direct investment (FDI) nor telephone calls appear to have any influence on domestic pollution-efficiency. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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