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Structural Change, Environment and Well-being: Interactions Between Production and Consumption Choices of the Rich and the Poor in Developing Countries

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

represent a push factor of economic development in an economy polarized into two main classes (the Rich and the Poor) and … economic transition. However the structural change is likely to result in an increase in inequality. …

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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth

Costantini, Valeria; Monni, Salvatore - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Over the last few years, environmental issues have entered into policy design, particularly development and growth … determinant. The integration of environmental issues into economic growth and development theories and empirics is currently … institutions and human development dimensions in building a sustainable development path. In this paper, we attempt to analyze the …

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Diversities in Diversity: Exploring Moroccan Migrants’ Livelihood in Genoa

Alzetta, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

It is a largely accepted idea that complexity and recent global phenomena have generated a multi-layered diversification process in Western societies. Migration phenomena are largely responsible for this process both in receiving European societies as well as in original sending countries....

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Visibility & Invisibility of Communities in Urban Systems

Santos, Paula Mota; Sousa, João Borges de - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Information on the presence of Chinese and Ukrainian communities in Portugal, and namely in Greater Porto (northern Portugal) will be presented to then investigate how recent work on evolving networks might be a helpful tool in analysing the integration of migrant communities in urban systems,...

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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

labour productivity, the economic performance, and human development. On the contrary, the linking social capital of …

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Entry and Exit Strategies in Migration Dynamics

Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This work is devoted to study the role of combined entry and exit strategies in the migration process. We develop a real option model in which the community of immigrants in the host country is described as a club and the immigrants benefits is a U-shaped function, depending on the dimension of...

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Migration Dynamics

Vergalli, Sergio; Moretto, Michele - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper tries to explain why most migration flows show some observable jumps in their processes, a phenomenon that seems to be sympathetic with the characteristic of irreversibility of migration. We present a real option model where the choice to migrate depends on both the differential wage...

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Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun

Bosetti, Valentina; Frankel, Jeffrey - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming budget period, the...

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Cross-Border Intellectual Property Rights: Contract Enforcement and Absorptive Capacity

Naghavi, Alireza; Tsai, Yingyi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining approach and distinguishes between the outcome and its actual enforcement. The absorptive capacity of the Southern country to exploit technology transfer plays a key role in the...

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An Exploration of the Link Between Development, Economic Growth, and Natural Risk

Hallegatte, Stéphane - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters … development and slower than income at high levels of development. In that case, increasing risk-taking reinforces economic growth …-taking is both a driver and a consequence of economic development, and should not be indiscriminately suppressed. The …

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