Air pollutants in Malaysia : the contribution of economic growth towards it / Halimahton Borhan and Elsadig Musa Ahmed

• Main Authors: Borhan, Halimahton, Ahmed, Elsadig Musa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Research Management Institute (RMI) 2008
• Subjects: Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product; Special types of environment. Including soil pollution, air pollution, noise pollution
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13051/1/AJ_HALIMAHTON%20BORHAN%20SMRJ%2008%201.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13051/; https://smrj.uitm.edu.my/

It is possible to distinguish three main channels whereby income growth affects the quality of the environment as first suggested by Grossman (1995). These are (1) scale effect, (2) composition effect and (3) techn ologi cal pr ogr ess. A recent resear ch criticism by Cole (2003 and 2004) of the en...