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"Waste in the Inner City: Asset or Assault?"
Ackerman, Frank; Mirza, Sumreen - EconWPA - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125982
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A Model of Demographic and Economic Processe Interaction
Olenev, Nicholas; Sarancha, Dmitry - EconWPA - 2003
in education, (ii) the production level depends on the education level, and (iii) the pollution ia directly prportional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408298
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Water Rights Arrangements in Australia and Overseas
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
There are significant differences in the way water rights are defined, allocated and administered in Australia and overseas. This paper includes comparisons of the arrangements for managing water rights against accepted best practice principles for South Au stralia, Queensland, NSW, Victoria...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556157
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Industrialization and Infant Mortality
Federman, Maya; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2005
. At the same time, pollution from factories appears quite harmful to infants. The overall effect was slightly higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118693
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POLLUTION AND WELFARE IN THE PRESENCE OF INFORMAL SECTOR: IS THERE ANY TRADE-OFF?
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005
the informal manufacturing sector creates pollution, higher the use of informal sector product, higher is the pollution … created and higher the discrepancy between actual and permissible levels of pollution, so that the emission tax payable by the … formal sector is also higher. The efficiency of a representative worker is inversely related to the level of pollution. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118943
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Arrangements for Setting Drinking Water Standards
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This study forms part of a continuing program of research benchmarking the performance of economic infrastructure industries. Earlier studies have focused on information about outcomes, such as prices and productivity. This study of the water sector, however, compares regulatory processes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134979
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408428
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Health Economics : some stylized facts
ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003
The study of the stylized facts of economic growth has allowed an advance of this field of economic analysis in its empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076927
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New Labor Legislation in Montenegro – Labor Law and Proposal of the General Collective Agreement
Krsmanovic, Ana - EconWPA - 2004
A key area of focus in the economic reform process and the design of a favorable business environment is labor market legislation. Montenegro has obviously failed in this area. After nearly 13 years since the beginning of the transition process, or five years since the beginning of Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076510
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The Uneasy Case for the Flat Tax
Buckley, Francis; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999
There is a secret paradox at the heart of social contract theories. Such theories assume that, because personal security and private property are at risk in a state of nature, subjects will agree to grant Leviathan a monopoly of violence. But what is to prevent Leviathan from turning on his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076588