La curva medioambiental de Kuznets: evidencia empírica para Colombia
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hyphotesis explores the relation between economic growthand environmental quality, trying to prove that population density, income inequality, levels ofeducation, technologycal progress and political systems, change environmental degradation proccesin the short run. Nevertheless, economic growth brings an opportunity to create sustainable urbansites and contributes to improve environmental damage subjects in the long run.Based on empirical studies, we explore this inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growthand environmental quality in Colombia. Finally we conclude that our country is still on the upwardslope, which means that our economic growth is inducing to worsen the environmental quality.
