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Lifestyle Choices and Societal Behavior Changes as Local Climate Strategy
Mohanty, Brahmanand - 2012
. This paper attempts to identify lifestyle changes at the individual level, and behavioral changes at the community level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097115
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Development trajectories, emission profile, and policy actions: Singapore
Doshi, Tilak K.; D'Souza, Neil Sebastian - 2013
Singapore is the most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and is totally dependent on oil and natural gas imports to satisfy its energy needs. Its national energy policy framework seeks to find a balance between maintaining Singapore's competitiveness, improving energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397216
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Development Trajectories, Emission Profile, and Policy Actions : Singapore
Doshi, Tilak K.; D’Souza, Neil Sebastian - 2013
Singapore is the most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and is totally dependent on oil and natural gas imports to satisfy its energy needs. Its national energy policy framework seeks to find a balance between maintaining Singapore’s competitiveness, improving energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157445
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Foreign Direct Investment in Cross-Border Infrastructure Projects
Fung, K. C. - 2011
In this paper the authors critically review the relevant information and literature that can enhance the feasibility and the successful implementation of cross-border infrastructure projects. They provide detailed information concerning foreign direct investment in the major emerging regions:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127769
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Trade in Services and Human Development : A First Look at the Links
Shepherd, Ben - 2011
Some services directly produce outputs that are important for human development, such as basic human services. Many other services are important inputs into the production and distribution of goods that are necessary for human development purposes. A more efficient services sector should mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128693
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Market Failures and Regulatory Failures : Lessons from Past and Present Financial Crises
Acharya, Viral V. - 2011
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of 2007-2009 through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures and presents a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis: excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130373
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Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability : Current Policy Issues
Hannig, Alfred - 2011
The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters'' and national regulators'' response has been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations. However, at a time of designing stricter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132039
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Financial Development : A Broader Perspective
Reid, Richard - 2011
This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking … may be more fruitful for today's emerging world to concentrate more on addressing the needs of savers and borrowers in … each individual system. A major lesson for the emerging world from past financial development is that there are risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132042
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Solicited and Unsolicited Credit Ratings : A Global Perspective
Poon, Winnie P.H. - 2010
The authors conducted a global study of the long-term issuer ratings of nonfinancial firms from Standard and Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) for the period 1998–2003. Specifically, they focused on the solicited versus unsolicited ratings and sample-selection bias in the analysis. Unlike the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138521
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Rebalancing the US Economy in a Postcrisis World
Bosworth, Barry - 2010
The objective of this paper is to explore how the external balance of the United States (US) might evolve in future years as the economy emerges from the recession. We examine the issue from the domestic perspective of the saving and investment balance and from the external side in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139278