A LITERATURE SURVEY ON ENVIRONMENT - POVERTY NEXUS

Abstract

The subject of causal relationship between environment and poverty has been studied numerously in the literature. There are numerous studies focused on different countries, time periods, and econometric models have been used to analyze environment and poverty nexus. This paper provides a survey of the literature of environment-poverty nexus. The survey addresses that most empirical studies focus on either analyzing the role of poverty on environment or exploring the direction of causality between these two variables. Although these studies proved negative role of poverty on environmental degradation, the results of these studies have been varied and produced conflicting results and there is consensus neither on the existence nor on the direction of causality between environment and poverty. The policy implications of these relationships can be significant depending upon what kind of causal relationship exists.