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hypothesis. Thus, our findings suggest that not all MENA countries need to sacrifice economic growth to decrease their emission … growth. …
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Using a bootstrap panel analysis that allows for cross-country dependence, without requiring the use of pre-tests for a unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the 1991-2010 period (according to availability of...
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(agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy … indicative estimates of the external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. Our estimates using …
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China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … China as it tries to re-balance its growth. Finally, in light of important concerns over data, we examine the robustness of …
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Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...
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society and inversely related with proportion of government capital to working capital and real growth rates at constant price …
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Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...
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We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax,...
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According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant … support to the pollution haven hypothesis, i.e. environmental stringency is not found to affect significantly total trade, or … its components (pollution intensive trade and pollution intensive trade related to non-resource-based trade). …
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and temporal resolution. Then, we link inversion episode data to ground level pollution monitors and to daily in- and … from low-income households suffer significantly more from air pollution than children from high income households. Finally … pollution across children in rich and poor households. …
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