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The Elgar companion to the Asian development bank

Quibria, Muhammad G. (ed.); Akanda, Albab (ed.) - 2024

"Providing an authoritative yet accessible introduction to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), this comprehensive Companion offers a detailed examination of the ADB's objectives, policies, development outcomes, strengths and weaknesses, areas for reform, and challenges going forward. M.G. Quibria...

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Climate change and agriculture : an economic analysis of global impacts, adaptation and distributional effects

Mendelsohn, Robert O.; Dinar, Ariel - 2009

Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and … how agriculture can adapt under a variety of conditions. This book examines 22 countries across four continents, including … climate change on agriculture -- 4. The Ricardian method -- 5. Modeling adaptation to climate change -- 6. Structural …

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Global environmental change and agriculture : assessing the impacts

Frisvold, George B. (ed.); Kuhn, Betsey (ed.) - 1999

Global Environmental Change and Agriculture offers a comprehensive perspective on the causes, consequences and possible … global climate change on agriculture and the need to sustain agricultural growth for economic development. The book begins by … within the developing world, where agriculture remains a major economic activity. Authors take on an economy-wide perspective …

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Failing to compete : technology development and technology systems in Africa

Lall, Sanjaya - 2002

performance of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 3. Kenya -- 4. Tanzania -- 5. Uganda -- 6. Ghana -- 7. Zimbabwe. … Zimbabwe in the context of their export competitiveness. Its emphasis is on the role of technology systems in building …

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Towards sustainable development in industry? : reports from seven developing and transition economies

Hesp, Paul (contributor); Luken, Ralph Andrew (contributor) - 2003

Czech Republic, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey and Zimbabwe - countries which all have designated national sustainable …

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The economics of climate-resilient development

Fankhauser, Samuel (contributor); … - 2016

vulnerability: where are the investment hotspots? / S. Dietz, C. Dixon and J. Ward -- 6. Assessing climate-resilient development …

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Trends in climate change legislation

Averchenkova, Alina (contributor); … - 2017

Contents: 1. Introduction / A. Averchenkova, S. Fankhauser and M. Nachmany -- Part I -- How climate change legislation comes about -- 2. The national and international drivers of climate change legislation / A. Clare, S. Fankhauser and C. Gennaioli -- 3. Climate change legislation and policy in...

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Climate and trade policy : bottom-up approaches towards global agreement

Carraro, Carlo (ed.); Egenhofer, Christian (ed.) - 2007

Bottom-up approaches towards a global climate agreement : an overview -- Carlo Carraro, Christian Egenhofer and Noriko Fujiwara -- Regional and subglobal climate blocs : a cost-benefit analysis of bottom-up climate regimes / Barbara Buchner and Carlo Carraro -- Do regional integration approaches...

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Global warming and the American economy : a regional assessment of climate change impacts

Mendelsohn, Robert O. (ed.) - 2001

1. Introduction -- 2. Agriculture : agronomic-economic analysis -- 3. Agriculture : a Ricardian analysis -- 4. Timber …

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Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics

Lawn, Philip A. (contributor) - 2006

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how are we to know how successful these have been? This significant new book discusses the ways in which sustainable...

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