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To many, reducing water losses is seen as key to more sustainable water management. The arguments to reduce water losses are compelling, but reducing water losses has turned out to be challenging. This paper applies a panel data analysis with fixed effects to determine the major drivers of...
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Although previous research has demonstrated the health benefits of water treatment programs, relatively little is known about the effect of water treatment on education. This paper examines the educational benefits to rural youth in China of a major drinking water treatment program started in...
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This paper presents a study of willingness-to-pay of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan, a unique and precious symbol of the Armenian cultural heritage. Dichotomous choice contingent valuation questions were asked by mail surveys to elicit...
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The author evaluates the strength of the effect that community pressure and pollution charges have on industrial … pollution control in China, and estimates the marginal cost of pollution abatement. He examines a well-documented set of plant …-level data, combined with community-level data, to assess the impact of pollution charges and community pressure on industrial …
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management issues include pollution of the Warta and its main tributaries, prompting cities to rely on groundwater supplies that …
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If the marginal gains from investment in physical capital depend positively on knowledge, but a household cannot hire skilled labor to compensate for low skills, then even if it has access to credit, the household will achieve lower returns than an educated household. If, as is common, the...
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Studies of successful and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and their marketing and technical support systems were undertaken for Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Three to four subsectors were examined in each country. The sample worldwide amounted to 445 firms. Mechanisms to...
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The authors start from the premise that governments act as agents of the public in regulating pollution, using the … are very different, both socio-economically and in terms of pollution regulation- to test a model of equilibrium pollution … pollution intensity; community incomes have a powerful negative association with pollution intensity. Their findings on …
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-intensive field crops, such as sugarcane and fodder. Accordingly, liberalizing local water allocation in irrigation agriculture is …
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