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In order to fully evaluate the impacts of organic contract farming scheme, spillovers on the local community, including people that do not directly participate in such scheme, need to be evaluated. One of these spillovers is the creation of employment opportunities and this is the focus of this...
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growth over the period 1981-2005. The econometric relationships derived in this paper suggest that future reductions in CO2 …
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We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen … African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa …. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no "one way" recommendation about energy-growth relationship that …
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We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution … and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … maintenance, that participate to increase agents' life expectancy and to sustain growth in the long term. We show that global …
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uncertainty on capital inflows in such an economy generates long-term (expected) growth while the deterministic counterpart does … not. In this framework, long-term growth is entirely driven by precautionary savings. In particular, we show that the … asymptotic growth rate of the expected capital stock is an increasing function of both the risk parameter and the Arrow …
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growing economy, that is when population growth is optimal in the long-run, this egalitarian rule can only hold when (i) the …
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This work represent a very brief and complex (on the same time) presentation of the actual situation in some Balkan countries - especially Serbia, on their way to the European Union (EU). The aim is to present clearly the "European conditions" necessary to be fulfilled by candidate and potential...
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The paper investigates the impact of ownership concentration on GDP growth, for a sample of 18 OECD countries over the … period 1980 to 2004. The econometric analysis shows that more concentrated ownership can speed up growth, for countries … regulation, the logic of financial markets discipline applies and dispersed ownership appears as more favorable for growth. Based …
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Recently, many contributions have focused on the relationship between capital accumulation, growth and population … environmental concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase of capital intensity, population growth and pollution … capital intensity, population growth and pollution. …
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). Indeed, after WWII, thinking on development was focused on growth. A major shift occurred in the late 1990s, which has … consisted in the replacement of 'growth' or 'development' as a goal of policymakers and international institutions and a central …-à-vis the previous one of growth and development, and the acceptance that development is no longer the priority goal of public …
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