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Information × Registration Number 2108U001679, Article popup.category Thesis Title popup.author popup.publication 01-01-2008 popup.source_user Сумський державний університет popup.source http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8156 popup.publisher Видавництво СумДУ Description The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is a hypothesized relationship between various indicators of environmental degradation and income per capita. In the early stages of economic growth degradation and pollution increase, but beyond some level of income per capita, which will vary for different indicators, the trend reverses, so that at high income levels economic growth leads to environmental improvement. This implies that the environmental impact indicator is an inverted U-shaped function of income per capita. Typically, the logarithm of the indicator is modelled as a quadratic function of the logarithm of income. An example of an estimated EKC is shown in Figure 1. The EKC is named for Kuznets (1955) who hypothesized that income inequality first rises and then falls as economic development proceeds. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8156 popup.nrat_date 2025-05-12 Close