The Impact of Water Quality on GDP Growth: Evidence from Around the World

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The Impact of Water Quality on GDP Growth: Evidence from Around the World

dc.contributor.author	Desbureaux, Sebastien
dc.contributor.author	Damania, Richard
dc.contributor.author	Rodella, Aude-Sophie
dc.contributor.author	Russ, Jason
dc.contributor.author	Zaveri, Esha
dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-23T18:00:13Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-23T18:00:13Z
dc.date.issued	2019-12-10
dc.description.abstract	Declining water quality can impact the economy in various ways. Impacts can be found in the health sector, where labor productivity can be affected, in agriculture, where the quality and quantity of food produced can be reduced, and in tourism, real estate, aquaculture/fisheries and other sectors which rely on environmental quality and ecosystem services. Despite these well-known impacts, finding economy-wide affects of water quality on economic activity can be elusive. In this paper we attempt to fill this gap by using a conventional empirical approach in contemporary environmental economics and new data on economic activity and water quality for nineteen countries from 1990-2014. The authors find that when rivers become very heavily polluted, regions downstream see reductions in economic growth, losing between 0.8 and 2.0 percent of economic growth. These losses imply that in many places, the costs of environmental degradation are severely under-estimated and well above efficient levels.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/656191576065317601/The-Impact-of-Water-Quality-on-GDP-Growth-Evidence-from-Around-the-World
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/33071
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33071
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	WATER QUALITY
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	WATER POLLUTION
dc.subject	WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject	BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
dc.subject	AQUACULTURE
dc.subject	TOURISM
dc.title	The Impact of Water Quality on GDP Growth	en
dc.title.subtitle	Evidence from Around the World	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
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okr.crossref.title	The Impact of Water Quality on GDP Growth
okr.date.disclosure	2019-12-11
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
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okr.topic	Environment::Pollution Management & Control
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Growth
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Theory & Research
okr.topic	Water Resources::Hydrology
okr.topic	Water Resources::Water Economics
okr.unit	Global Solutions Water (SWAGL)
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