A new study argues for a (positive) link between economic expansion and ecology
A new argument that economic progress can help to ease environmental woes, just so long as the governance is good too
CAN poor countries afford to be green? That is a question which politicians in the developing world have often asked rather pointedly. To them, it seems that the obsession of some rich types with preserving forests and saving cuddly animals like pandas or lemurs, while paying less attention to the human beings living nearby, is both cynical and hypocritical.
There is, of course, plenty of evidence that greenery and growth are not polar opposites. After decades of expansion in China and other fast-emerging economies, some of the negative side-effects and their impact on human welfare, above all the death toll caused by foul air and water, are horribly clear (see page 64). Yet the relationship between growth and the state of the environment is far from simple.
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