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Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies

Kerr, Suzi; Hendy, Joanna; Liu, Shuguang; Pfaff, … - EconWPA - 2004

Tropical forests are estimated to release approximately 1.7 PgC per year as a result of deforestation. Avoiding tropical deforestation could potentially play a significant role in carbon mitigation over the next 50 years if not longer. Many policymakers and negotiators are skeptical of our...

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Reform of Building Regulation

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005

performance of the building and construction industry. The Commission found that the Australian Building Codes Board has made …

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Rules of Origin under the Australia–New Zealand CER Trade Agreement

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

Rules of origin arrangements under the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER) were referred to the Commission for examination and report by May 2004. The request stemmed from concerns that Australian and New Zealand firms were having difficulty achieving the...

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Should Central Banks Burst Bubbles?

Conlon, John - EconWPA - 2005

dynamics and welfare economics to analyze bubble policies. Government policy is modeled as deflating overpriced assets by …Policy towards speculative bubbles is examined in a model of a finite horizon 'greater fool' bubble, with rational … revealing information about whether or not the asset is overpriced. It is shown that such a policy tends to improve welfare if …

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Policy Issues in Rural Transformation (The Indain Scenerio)

Bhargava, Harsh; Kumar, Deepak - EconWPA - 2005

Policy plays a significant role in nation building. This paper attempts to highlight the role of policy issues in … policies. If we take a snapshot of our history of the last 60 years since independence, we find that many policy initiatives … may lead to social and economic fragmentation of the country. We also bring out few recent policy initiatives of the …

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

agenda for reform is clear. Therefore, the thrust of this project is to formulate a model-based viable health policy reforms …

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An Interview with Paul A. Samuelson

Barnett, William A.; Samuelson, Paul A. - EconWPA - 2004

. Samuelson published in a professional economics journal. In addition, this is the only interview conducted personally by the … Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics, William A. Barnett. The interview covers Samuelson's views on the economics profession from …

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Bad Policies Under an Autocrat's Production

Jeong, Byeongju - EconWPA - 2001

Bad policies (i.e., policies harmful to private producers such as excessive taxation, arbitrary confiscation, and negligence of pubic goods) are observed in quite a few countries. These countries tend to have autocratic regimes.I explore a reason why bad policies may benefit autocrats.I present...

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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on

Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003

In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries, three years after publication of the Commission’s...

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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on

Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003

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