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This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...
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interest to consumers. "Golden rice" has been genetically engineered to contain a higher level of vitamin A and thereby boost … of adopting both types of innovation in Asia, including its impact on rice producers and other consumers. They do so … gains could be dwarfed by the welfare gains resulting from the potential health-enhancing attributes of golden rice which …
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"Noting that South Africa may be one of the few African countries that could contribute to mitigating climate change, the authors explore the impact of a carbon tax relative to alternative energy taxes on economic welfare. Using a disaggregate general-equilibrium model of the South African...
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"Global climate change is occurring at an accelerating pace, and the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are forcing climate change continue to increase. Given the present pace of international actions, it seems unlikely that atmospheric composition can be stabilized at a level that will...
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provides policy considerations and summarizes the policy implications of both psychological and conceptual barriers, and social …
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of current policy are surveyed along with empirical studies that make predictions about how carbon markets will work and …
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