Revisiting the link between socio-economic development and environmental status indicators—focus on panel data

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 567-586

  Sinha Babu, Swati ^a   Datta, Soumyendra Kishore ^b  

^a BANGABASI COLLEGE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

Author keywords

Canonical correlation; Simultaneous equation; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939876848     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-014-9561-6     Document Type: Article

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