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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA"
Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
As the barriers to hemispheric trade and integration are lowered, it will be asked whether we will we hear the "giant sucking sound" of poorer nations luring U.S. and Canadian firms south to take advantage of low wages and lax environmental regulations? Or, will Latin American nations passively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062608
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"Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy."
Ackerman, Frank; Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
Market based policies are fast becoming the recommended policy panacea for all the world’s environmental problems. Implicit in such recommendations is the theory that free markets, adjusted for externalities, can always create an “efficient” allocation of society’s resources. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556082
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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.
Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062681
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Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement. Keine Nachhaltigkeit ohne ökonomischen Erfolg. Kein ökonomischer Erfolg ohne Nachhaltigkeit
Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004
Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert. Hierbei bezieht sie erstmals zwei unterschiedliche, sich ergänzende Bewertungsverfahren ein: Sie nimmt erstens das Konzept des Environmental Shareholder Value auf und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407755
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Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556186
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior
Aughinbaugh, Alison; Gittleman, Maury - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines the impact of maternal employment during a child’s first three years and during adolescence on his or her decisions to engage in a range of risky behaviors: smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, using marijuana and other drugs, engaging in sex and committing crimes. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125822
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The Nature of Unemployment in Urban Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004
With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of incidence and duration and find that most variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556068
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Economically Active Children and Home-care Children: How Much They Differ
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Ali, Karamat - EconWPA - 2005
Over the issue of the difference or otherwise between economically active children and home-care children, there are … two competing claims by researchers. One holds that economically active children and home- care children are the same in … that both groups of children have identical determinants, while the other contradicts this view. Using the probit analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125745
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Child Poverty in Vietnam: Using Adult Equivalence Scales to Estimate Income-Poverty for Different Age Groups
White, Howard - EconWPA - 2005
Estimates of child poverty are based on the percentage of children living in poor households, which ignores the issue … is not possible to report figures relating to the number of children living in poverty. Yet analysts using income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062441
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Comparative Perspectives on Child poverty: a review of poverty measures
White, Howard; Masters, Andrew; Leavy, Jennifer - EconWPA - 2005
Child poverty matters directly as children constitute a large share of the population and indirectly for future … children. Moreover, a broader range of factors than material well-being matter for child development; family and community play …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407716