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This book reprints 18 essays selected from almost 30 years of work by the author as a high level official at the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the US Treasury Department and the World Bank. These essays report some of the core analytical thinking behind positions taken by these...
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costs of environmental policy for multiple pollutants be properly assessed in an applied model? Using an original … to study the costs of various environmental policies including climate change, acidification, eutrophication, smog … cost-effective manner, the economic costs of these policies can be effectively limited through a combination of economic …
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Currently developed countries pay much more attention to harmfully addictive substances than developing countries. However, the experience of developed countries is very relevant to the developing world since substance abuse is likely to impose a continually increasing burden of disease in this...
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: initial estimates of indirect costs / Thomas F. Stinson -- The economic cost of disasters : permanent or ephemeral? / Matthew … benefits and costs of prevention / Lester B. Lave, Jay Apt and Granger Morgan -- Risk and economic costs of a terrorist attack …
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processing operations / A. Thomas Bozzo -- 16. Do differences in facility-specific mail processing unit costs have implications …
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This book explores the growing list of non-tariff trade barriers raised by the US, EU and Japan and assesses the prospects for significant trade liberalization. The author examines the liability of global free trade through a review of the complaints that these three countries raised about each...
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Using spatially desegregated data on measures of pollution to derive economic damage estimates, the main purpose of the book is to gauge the environmental damage sustained as a result of economic activities and to offer an insight into how the information generated can be used in conjunction...
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Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets illustrates how a firm with high production costs but which is … easily able to evade taxes may displace from the market a company with low production costs but poor tax evasion capabilities …. The difference in production costs between the inefficient survivor and the efficient loser is termed by the author the …
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pt. 1. Principles -- pt. 2. Modelling -- pt. 3. External and internal costs -- pt. 4. Case studies …
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This book is a convenient and comprehensive collection of seminal papers on the costs of economic growth. The papers … the Costs and Benefits', Ecological Economics, 47 (2-3), December, 149-66 -- A. Antoci, S. Borghesi and P. Russu (2005 … (1950), 'The Nature and Significance of Social Costs', in The Social Costs of Private Enterprise, Chapter 2, Cambridge, MA …
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