Steven Levitt
Do the Poor Undervalue the Environment?
The Emerging Sub-Field of “Envirodevonomics” Seeks to Find Out
It’s hardly news that environmental quality in the Global South is often disastrous. Even middle income countries such as China and India face enormous pollution problems and destruction of ecosystems. But why? Do people in the Global South not care? Or is something else going on? A new paper in the Journal of Economic Literature …
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