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Power System Planning in India : Incorporating Environmental Externality Costs and Benefits
World Bank - 2012
This paper has been prepared in accordance with the terms of reference for a study on power system planning in India: incorporating externality costs and benefits. It reviews estimates of the external costs of power in international studies as well as in India and compares the figures available....
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Productivity growth and product variety : gains from imitation and education
Addison, Douglas - 2003
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An alternative unifying measure of welfare gains from risk-sharing
Auffret, Philippe - 2001
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The short and longer term potential welfare impact of global commodity inflation in Tanzania
Dessus, Sébastien - 2008
"This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model to assess the welfare impact of commodity price inflation in … inflation since 2006 may have had a significantly negative impact on all Tanzanian households. Most of the negative impact comes … shielded from global commodity inflation because they derive a larger share of their incomes from agricultural activity and …
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HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa : the costs of inaction
Jenkins, Carol Lynn - 2003
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Violence in Colombia : building sustainable peace and social capital
2000
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Alcohol
World Bank - 2012
Alcohol abuse is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Alcohol abuse is responsible for 4 percent of global deaths and disability, nearly as much as tobacco and five times the burden of illicit drugs (WHO). In developing countries with low mortality, alcohol is the leading...
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India : Diagnostic Assessment of Select Environmental Challenges, Volume 1. An Analysis of Physical and Monetary Losses of Environmental Health and Natural Resources
World Bank - 2013
This report provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution damage categories: (i) urban air pollution, including particulate matter and lead; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor sanitation, and hygiene; (iii) indoor air pollution; and four...
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How do agricultural policy restrictions to global trade and welfare differ across commodities ?
Lloyd, Peter John - 2009
"For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very differently for different commodities. Hence a weighted average across countries of nominal rates of assistance or consumer tax equivalents for a product can be misleading as an...
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Global distortions to agricultural markets : new indicators of trade and welfare impacts, 1955 to 2007
Lloyd, Peter John - 2009
"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional indicators of those price distortions can be poor guides to the policies' economic effects. Recent theoretical literature provides indicators of trade and welfare-reducing effects of...
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