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This study examines the consequences of a) a domestic carbon tax policy, and, b) participation in a global tradable emission permits regime on carbon emissions, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and poverty, in India. The results, based a computable general equilibrium model of the Indian economy,...
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include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …
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Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons …
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Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part...
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It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
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Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion.†[Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of...
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This paper shows that, in case of differentiated products mixed duopoly, environmental damage increases (decreases) with the level of privatization, if the level of privatization is less (more) than certain level. It also shows that partial privatization is optimal from the social welfare point...
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inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-village extended family networks in 504 poor …
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growth experience; (ii) rising inequality as a threat to growth, and (iii) the case for continued development assistance to …
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There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income inequality and growth, manifested in … on developing countries has led to an upsurge of interest in linkages between policy reform, growth, inequality and … poverty. They use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the links between growth, inequality and …
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