tailieunhanh - Measuring the Health Benefits from Reducing Air Pollution in Kathmandu Valley

It follows that a central question for policy makers is whether avoiding this growth is possible or desirable. A number of unknown but controversial factors affect this question, including whether growth rates of car use and those of car ownership are necessarily the same, and the extent to which transport activity drives economic growth, rather than being an indicator of it. On a macroeconomic scale, transport activity can be described as “excessive” if there are more vehicle kilometres travelled than are necessary to achieve and maintain an aspired-to quality of life for a given income or level. | s A N D E E - a . r Working Paper No 69-12 Measuring the Health Benefits from Reducing Air Pollution in Kathmandu Valley Naveen Adhikari ECONOMICS THE ENVIRONMENT Published by the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics SANDEE PO Box 8975 EPC 1056 Kathmandu Nepal. Tel 977-1-5003222 Fax 977-1-5003299 SANDEE research reports are the output of research projects supported by the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics. The reports have been peer reviewed and edited. A summary of the findings of SANDEE reports are also available as SANDEE Policy Briefs. National Library of Nepal Catalogue Service Naveen Adhikari Measuring the Health Benefits from Reducing Air Pollution in Kathmandu Valley SANDEE Working Papers ISSN 1893-1891 WP 69-12 ISBN 978-9937-8521-8-0 Key words Air Pollution Human Health Dose Response Function Panel Data Health Diary SANDEE Working Paper No. 69-12 Measuring the Health Benefits from Reducing Air Pollution in Kathmandu Valley Naveen Adhikari Central Department of Economics Tribhuvan University Kirtipur Kathmandu Nepal June 2012 South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics SANDEE PO Box 8975 EPC 1056 Kathmandu Nepal SANDEE Working Paper No. .