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Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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Deforestation and Land Use Changes Induced by the East Asian Economic Crisis

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

affected countries. It focuses on three main countries—Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The analysis shows that there … continuum of effects, with Indonesia most heavily hit, the Philippines the least so, and Thailand somewhere in between. (b …’s forests. This report examines the available evidence on the impacts of the crisis on deforestation and land use in the …

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Land Use Change in Indonesia

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

With an estimated loss of up to 20 million ha of forest over the past decade, deforestation in Indonesia has come to … the forefront of global environmental concerns. Indonesia is one of the most important areas of tropical forests worldwide … global importance because of their biodiversity and the carbon they sequester. Despite the benefits they provide, Indonesia …

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en Guatemala

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First …, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation and … biodiversity loss is explored. Secondly, some underlying causes of deforestation are examined. While caution is needed about many …

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks

Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004

The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...

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Half a World: Regional inequality in five great federations

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations composed of entities (states or … both concepts in the decade of the 1990’s; Indonesia, on the contrary, displays decreasing inequality in both from the …

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Elitist Land and Agriculture Policies and the Food Problem in Malawi

Stambuli, Kalonga - EconWPA - 2002

The author argues that conversion of over 1 million hectares of customary land to leasehold land tenure merely endowed the elite with excessive landholdings they did not fully utilise for tobacco production because it exceeded the requirement for production of the quota of tobacco output...

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Environmental Awareness and Sustainable Development

Shastri, Rahul - EconWPA - 2005

those who bear the costs of deforestation, either by travelling long distances, or by buying all their firewood, are more …

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