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Biodiversity can sometimes only be preserved if natural habitats are excluded from human uses. Such protection measures generate positive externalities at the global scale. This holds especially for protection in developing countries that host great parts of global biodiversity. For...
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The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a sample of 27 recipient countries to assess the claim of...
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The targeting of foreign aid within recipient countries is largely unexplored territory. We help close this gap in empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project locations at the district level in India. The...
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effectiveness of its financial aid has improved substantially by targeting aid at poor developing countries pursuing sound economic …
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effectiveness of its financial aid has improved substantially by targeting aid at poor developing countries pursuing sound economic …
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Economics of discrimination has been the topic of interest of many in the last decade or two. Human capital theory describes wage determination as a function of labour human capital and should be determined based on marginal productivity theorem of labour economics. Islamic theology also...
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Quantification of CO2 emissions embodied in China's trade is important for an informed debate on whom to blame for the … report emissions embodied in Chinese imports used for intermediate production of exports by combining calculations for China …
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determining entrepreneurial intentions of students in Hong Kong and in Guangzhou (mainland China). The two cities are culturally …
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China. China is by far the largest host country of CDM projects and it is therefore crucial to understand the factors that …
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This paper investigates the technical inefficiency, shadow price and substitution elasticity of CO2 emissions of China … output distance function, we show that China’s technical inefficiency increases over the period implying further scope for CO …). Additionally, increasingly steep substitution elasticity highlights the difficult reality of reducing China’s CO2 emissions …
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