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Overcoming inertia: insights from evolutionary economics into improved energy and climate policy
Lazaric, Nathalie; Maréchal, Kevin - HAL - 2010
The mainstream view in economics has been a key factor in designing climate policies. Given that the controversy over the “efficiency paradox” has shown that mainstream economics is not neutral in the way it deals with climate change, the purpose of this paper is to investigate what insights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791603
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Who benefits the most from peer effects within ethnic group ? Empirical evidence on the South African Labour Market
Ferrant, Gaëlle; Bourquin, Yannick - HAL - 2011
This paper provides evidence that local social interactions within etnic groups may explain the puzzling variations in labour-market outcomes across individuals. Peer effects work first by creating pressure on labor-market participation, second, by conveying information about job opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025562
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Smallholders' use of Bt-cotton under unfavourable context: lessons from South Africa
Fok, Michel; Gouse, Marnus; Hofs, Jean-Luc; Kirsten, Johann - HAL - 2008
The bulk of the South African cotton crop is produced by large scale commercial farmers. Therefore it might be misleading to present South Africa's impressive Genetically Modified Cotton (GMC) adoption figures as evidence of successful GMC use by smallholder farmers. The total South African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792512
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El marco de la Cooperación Económica entre Brasil y África Subsahariana: Angola, Mozambique y Sudáfrica
Menes, Danthe Damián Valderrama - HAL - 2012
The study of the southern economies, among which emerging countries such as Brazil and several of Africa stand out, has acquired increasing international importance. In this article south-south cooperation between the South American giant and Sub-Saharan Africa is analyzed, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820522
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BASIC effect on global climate governance. Power changes and regime shifts
Berthaud, Pierre; Voituriez, Tancrède - HAL - 2013
In this paper we address the issue of the indeterminacy of climate change negotiations and examine the role played by the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in this indeterminacy. Mobilising the analytical tools of international political economy (IPE), we show that changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820964
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What is the Role of Openness for China's Environment? An Analysis Based on Divisia Decomposition Method From the Regional Angle
He, Jie - HAL - 2011
Observing the weakness in the previous structural analyses on EKC formation, in this paper, author deepens the analysis into the detailed data of production and SO2 emission intensity of China's 29 industrial sectors (occupying over 98% of the total industrial production) in each province during...
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Polluting Industrialization
Constant, Karine; Nourry, Carine; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2011
link with pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and … environmental concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase of capital intensity, population growth and pollution … capital intensity, population growth and pollution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325714
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Optimal Nuclear Waste Burial Policy under Uncertainty
Kama, Alain Ayong Le; Fodha, Mouez - HAL - 2008
an accident might occur in the future. The framework is an optimal growth model with pollution disutility. We show, under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738598
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Land use dynamics and the environment
Camacho, Carmen; Pérez-Barahona, Agustín - HAL - 2012
, location's actions affect the whole space through pollution, which flows across locations resulting in both local and global … role of abatement technology as pollution stabilizer, allowing the economy to achieve stable steady states that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026040
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Strategic Interactions in Environmental Regulation Enforcement: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
Renard, Mary-Françoise; Xiong, Hang - HAL - 2012
This paper studies whether Chinese provinces set strategically their environmental stringency when faced with interprovincial competition for mobile capital. Using Chinese provincial data and spatial panel econometric models, we find that Chinese provinces do engage in this kind of strategic...
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