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This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
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could be applied to reducing carbon emissions, such as enhancing renewable energy deployment and encouraging technological … emissions have renewed the interest in the development of alternative energy resources. In particular, the Fukushima Daiichi … greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide, there is a global concern about reducing carbon emissions. In this regard, different policies …
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dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12 Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) over the period 1981 …–2005. Our results show that in the long-run energy consumption has a positive significant impact on CO2 emissions. More … levels as they may achieve CO2 emissions reduction via energy conservation without negative long-run effects on economic …
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unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the … indicate that employment and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. Unidirectional causality from employment to energy use … in Tunisia, Cameroun, Zambia and Ethiopia is found. A unidirectional causality from energy use to employment is found in …
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response programs during peak times and thereby save costly power generation and energy resources and at the same time reduce …
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The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
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This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and …. Such dissimilarities are also found in the relationship between CO2 emissions and openness. In the case of Korea and Japan …
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This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
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In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
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Using detailed survey data on management practices, this paper uses recent advances in unconditional quantile analysis to study the changes in the within country distribution of management quality associated with country convergence to the managerial frontier. It then decomposes the contribution...
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