{"id":394,"date":"2014-05-23T15:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T14:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/?p=394"},"modified":"2016-02-09T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:23:06","slug":"economic-freedom-and-air-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/2014\/05\/23\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Freedom and Air Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-395\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-395 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover-400x200.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover-24x12.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover-36x18.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover-48x24.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality-cover.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Fraser Institute, a major Canadian think tank located in Vancouver has just released an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraserinstitute.org\/studies\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality\" target=\"_blank\">important report<\/a>\u00a0(40 p.) stressing that &#8220;Economic freedom is one of the main drivers of economic prosperity&#8230; Economic institutions that contribute to economic freedom may actually lead to a cleaner environment at the same time&#8221; as illustrated by the Environmental Kuzntz Curve (EKC). Veting the statisticcs of over a hundred countries the authors found out that &#8221; a permanent one-point increase in the Economic Freedom of the World Index results in a 7.5% decrease in concentrations of fine particles in the long run&#8221; but no influence on CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fraser Institute, a major Canadian think tank located in Vancouver has just released an\u00a0important report\u00a0(40 p.) stressing that &#8220;Economic freedom is one of the main drivers of economic prosperity&#8230; Economic institutions that contribute to economic freedom may actually lead to a cleaner environment at the same time&#8221; as illustrated by the Environmental Kuzntz Curve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/2014\/05\/23\/economic-freedom-and-air-quality\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Economic Freedom and Air Quality<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}