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Energy-Based Economic Development: Mapping the Developing Country Context
Carley, Sanya; Desai, Sameeksha; Bazilian, Morgan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national economic development and sustainable growth activities. As both policy and research interests in responsible mechanisms for economic development grow, EBED benefits are becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541203
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Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects
Farzin, Y. Hossein - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal development path can also be sustainable. It argues that the general “zero-net-aggregate-investment” condition for an optimal development path to be sustainable in the sense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230804
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Agriculture, Water Resources and Water Policies in Italy
Massarutto, Antonio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
This paper provides an overview of the Italian water management system, with particular reference to the links between agriculture and water resources, and emphasis on underground resources. Our objective is mainly descriptive at this level; nonetheless, we try to evaluate patterns of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423071
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The Allure of Technology: How France and California Promoted Electric Vehicles to Reduce Urban Air Pollution
Calef, David; Goble, Robert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
quality by means of technological innovation, adopting legislation that promoted clean vehicles, prominently among them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423092
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Cost-Reducing R&D in the Presence of an Appropriation Alternative: An Application to the Natural Resource Curse
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
This study proposes a new mechanism for the resource curse: crowding-out of innovation due to the existence of an … increase in resources decreases innovation in the formal sector, both income and welfare still go up. Meanwhile, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833923
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Natural Resources, Innovation, and Growth
Papyrakis, Elissaios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can …, consumers trade off leisure versus consumption, and firms trade off innovation efforts versus manufacturing. For this model, we … indirectly by inducing a smaller proportion of the labor force to engage in innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230839
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Creative Thinking and Modelling for the Decision Support in Water Management
Lasut, Anna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
This paper reviews the state of art in knowledge and preferences elicitation techniques. The purpose of the study was to evaluate various cognitive mapping techniques in order to conclude with the identification of the optimal technique for the NetSyMod methodology. Network Analysis – Creative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385478
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An Econometric Analysis of the Effectiveness of Development Finance for the Energy Sector
Gualberti, Giorgio; Martins, Luis Filipe; Bazilian, Morgan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
Reaching the objective of universal access to modern energy services will require large investments in infrastructure in developing countries. An important part of funding will be provided in the form of development finance and its effectiveness in producing positive impacts is crucial for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607432
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Dynamic Core-Theoretic Cooperation in a Two-Dimensional International Environmental Model
Germain, Marc; Tulkens, Henry; Magnus, Alphonse - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
This article deals with cooperation issues in international pollution problems in a two di- mensional dynamic framework implied by the accumulation of the pollutant and of the capital goods. Assuming that countries do reevaluate at each period the advantages to cooperate or not given the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008041
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Multi-Sectoral Uses of Water & Approaches to DSS in Water Management in the NOSTRUM Partner Countries of the Mediterranean
Abu-Zeid, Khaled; Afifi, Sameh - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Agriculture contributes an average of about 10% to the GDP of the partner countries of the Mediterranean involved in the project NOSTRUM. On the other hand, industry contributes an average of about 30% in these countries. It is to remark that in almost all countries the weight of industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230888