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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies display large variation in terms of income per capita. The richest … APEC economies have an income per capita about twenty times higher than the poorest ones. So far most work on fiscal policy … mitigating and adapting to climate change effects corrects that bias with a particular focus on the developing economies of APEC …
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Drawing on several studies on APEC economies, this report discusses economic policy choices for mitigating and adapting … to climate change effects. It highlights that APEC economies will have a central role in both sides of climate change …, CFTs can provide co-benefits like rural electrification. The current status of CFTs in APEC economies - their production …
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, despite the efforts of APEC members, the recycling rate of post-consumption plasticpackaging remains relatively low in most … APEC member economies. This report combines lessons learned from global case studies with insights from APEC membersto … outline a series of recommendations for accelerating EPR implementation and operationalization in APEC member economies …
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This report uses new measures of extreme weather and methodologies to gauge their welfare effects. A myriad of methodological issues and data constraints plague empirical work on the effects of extreme weather events on human welfare. The shocks themselves are often poorly measured and the lack...
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-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies in Asia. These risks include falling freshwater availability, rainfall volatility … APEC member economies. Given that APEC economies account for more than half of global GHG emissions, the adoption of …, describes the wide range of different CFTs already in use in middle-income APEC economies and their potential. As such, it is a …
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"Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The authors provide estimates of the potential...
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"This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local...
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"The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's trade performance over the past two decades has been disappointing. Efforts to boost trade through a plethora of regional trade agreements (RTAs) are underway. This study examines the potential contribution of regional trade agreements, as well...
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"Past research into the determinants of international trade highlighted the importance of the basic spatial gravity model augmented by additional variables representing sources of friction. Studies modeled many sources of friction using various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment...
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