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Política económica en Venezuela: propósitos, medidas y resultados obtenidos en la última década
Tomé, Juan Pablo Mateo; Iglesias, Eduardo Sánchez - HAL - 2010
En esta ponencia se analiza el conjunto de objetivos, medidas de política económica y resultados obtenidos a partir de la coherencia entre sus pretendidos propósitos y la práctica, llevando a cabo un ejercicio de contextualización de este período ante la convulsión social y la incidencia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791888
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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - HAL - 2013
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738712
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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - HAL - 2012
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739064
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Future expansion of agriculture and pasture acts toamplify atmospheric CO2 levels in response to fossilfuel and land-use change emissions
Gitz, Vincent; Ciais, Philippe - HAL - 2004
The expansion of crop and pastures to the detriment of forests results into an increase in atmospheric CO2. A first obvious cause is the loss of forest biomass and soil carbon during and after conversion. A second, generally ignored cause, is the reduction of the residence time of carbon when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790347
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Ecological Fiscal Incentives and Spatial Strategic Interactions: the Case of the ICMS-E in the Brazilian state of Paraná
Sauquet, Alexandre; Marchand, Sébastien; FERES, José … - HAL - 2012
The ICMS-Ecológico is a fiscal transfer mechanism from states to municipalities, implemented in the early 1990's in Brazil, to reward municipalities for the creation and management of protected areas. This paper investigates the efficiency of this mechanism by testing for the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899635
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Calculation of land use price and land use claims for agriculture, transport and urban land use at national level
Boitier, Baptiste; Costa, Pascal Da; Mouel, Pierre Le; … - HAL - 2008
The current deliverable report has been prepared in the framework of PLUREL Work Package 1.1 (Economic Scenarios) by Paris 1 Université - Lab. ERASME. The implementation of four scenarios for the PLUREL project allows the description of a range of possible futures in order to evaluate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899638
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Land use dynamics and the environment
Camacho, Carmen; Pérez-Barahona, Agustín - HAL - 2012
We build a benchmark framework to study optimal land use, encompassing land use activities and environmental degradation. We focus on the spatial externalities of land use as drivers of spatial patterns : even if land is immobile by nature, location's actions affect the whole space through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026040
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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930218
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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930231
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Transportation Infrastructure and Development in Ghana
Jedwab, Rémi; Moradi, Alexandre - HAL - 2011
. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial … show that the economic boom in cocoa-producing areas was associated with demographic growth and urbanization. We _nd no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738826