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Handle with care : fragile states and the determinants of fragility
Feeny, Simon; Posso, Alberto; Regan-Beasley, Jonathan - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 10/12, pp. 1073-1085
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486304
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Connectivity for Caribbean Countries : An Initial Assessment
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia - 2017
Caribbean Sea is the most important vehicle and the most challenging obstacle Caribbean countries have to connect with the world … opportunity to develop alternative and more competitive private sector-led services such as inter-island ferries and low-cost air … handful of shipping liners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972239
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Regional Carbon Pricing for International Maritime Transport : Challenges and Opportunities for Global Geographical Coverage
Dominioni, Goran - 2018
Although the existing literature identifies a fuel levy imposed by means of a global agreement as the most efficient policy for carbon pricing in the maritime sector, scholars and policy makers debate the possibility for regional measures to be introduced in case a global agreement cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929297
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Oecs Ports : An Efficiency and Performance Assessment
Cubas, Diana - 2017
Handling charges in Caribbean ports are two to three times higher than in similar ports in other regions of the world … a neighboring island no more than 100 miles away. The reasons for high port-handling costs are linked to procedural … inefficiencies along the logistics chain, high freight rates that shipping lines attribute to empty backhauls, and the poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972276
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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors
Havlík, Petr - 2017
a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970677
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Is Green Growth Good for the Poor?
Dercon, Stefan - 2017
The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these …
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On the drivers of sustainable development : empirical evidence from developed and emerging markets
Li, Jia; Bouraoui, Taoufik; Rădulescu, Magdalena - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 57, pp. 6809-6821
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Vertical collusion in the shipping container transport chain over the deregulation tariff of port authority
Dong, Gang; Li, Jin; Lee, Paul T.-W. - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 20, pp. 2275-2287
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Non-Renewable Resources, Fiscal Rules, and Human Capital
Levine, Paul - 2019
This paper develops a multi-sector, small open economy Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model, which includes the accumulation of human capital, built via public expenditures in education and health. Four possible fiscal rules are examined for total public investment in infrastructure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903112
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Transport Policies and Development
Berg, Claudia N. - 2018
This survey reviews the current state of the economic literature, assessing the impact of transport policies on growth, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. The findings are summarized and methodologies are critically assessed, especially those dealing with endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937140