Does income inequality affect environmental sustainability? Evidence from the ASEAN-5

• Main Authors: Masud, Muhammad Mehedi, Kari, Fatimah, Banna, Hasanul, Saifullah, Md Khaled
• Format: Article
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
• Subjects: HC Economic History and Conditions
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/21327/; https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2018.1442146

Income gap among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has widened, while environment degradation has worsened since the 1990s. Using the Gini coefficient as a measure of income inequality, this paper attempts to examine whether the increasing income gap would have adverse effects on en...