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Losing territory: The effect of administrative splits on land use in the tropics
Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2023
State decentralization is often promoted to improve public service delivery. However, its effects on forest conservation are ambiguous. Decentralization might not only improve local forest governance, but also change the incentives to promote agricultural expansion into forests. This study...
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"What's your shape?": A data-driven approach to estimating the environmental Kuznets Curve
Gravina, Antonio Francesco; Lanzafame, Matteo - 2024
The substantial literature on the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth-known as the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)-has produced very mixed evidence. This largely depends on model and variable selection uncertainty. We address...
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Achieving Environmental Sustainability in Myanmar
Raitzer, David A.; Samson, Jindra Nuella G.; Nam, Kee-Yung - 2015
Myanmar's long isolation from international markets and sources of finance historically limited development, and thus, the pressure on its environment. Many of its resources remain relatively intact, despite an absence of effective environmental regulations. Yet, as the country integrates into...
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Valuing unpaid care work in Bhutan
Suh, Jooyeoun; Mercer-Blackman, Valerie; … - 2020
measurement is Bhutan, which produces the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index. However, until the first GNH Survey, in 2008 …, Bhutan did not have any sense of the size and distribution of unpaid work, despite its strong societal norms about the value … of volunteering and community work. This paper is the first to estimate the value of unpaid care work in Bhutan. It shows …
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Can Skill Diversification Improve Welfare in Rural Areas? Evidence from the Rural Skills Development Project in Bhutan
Chun, Natalie; Watanabe, Makiko - 2011
Income growth in rural areas may be one of the greatest challenges to further poverty reduction and economic development. Using a new survey of rural Bhutanese households we investigate the short-term economic, social, and psychosocial benefits of a vocational skills training program that was...
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Can Skill Diversification Improve Welfare in Rural Areas? Evidence from the Rural Skills Development Project in Bhutan
Chun, Natalie; Watanabe, Makiko - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2011
Income growth in rural areas may be one of the greatest challenges to further poverty reduction and economic development. Using a new survey of rural Bhutanese households we investigate the short-term economic, social, and psychosocial benefits of a vocational skills training program that was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009245395
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What Accounts for the Growth of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Advanced and Emerging Economies? The Role of Consumption, Technology, and Global Supply Chain Trade
Ferrarini, Benno; de Vries, Gaaitzen J. - 2015
Climate policy pledges and negotiations involve commitments about the reduction of emissions within national borders. However, the rise of global value chains has changed the nature of production and international trade, blurring the attribution of ultimate responsibility for emissions. This...
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Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters
Thomas, Vinod; López, Ramón - 2015
Intense climate-related disasters - floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves - have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures, on average, have been rising, and are becoming more variable and more...
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Climate-Related Disasters in Asia and the Pacific
Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2013
as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced some of the most damaging disasters … Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater … temperature linked to droughts and heat waves) and the frequency of intense natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and its …
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Governance, vulnerability to climate change, and green growth: International evidence
Le, Thai-ha; Chang, Youngho; Park, Donghyun - 2016
We examine the role of governance and vulnerability to climate change in green growth using a global panel data set of 122 countries in 2000.2012. We find that, as expected, governance has a positive effect on environmental performance and vulnerability to climate change has a negative effect....
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