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Should We Discount the Far-Distant Future at Its Lowest Possible Rate?

Gollier, Christian - 2009

In this paper, we elaborate on an idea initially developed by Weitzman (1998) that justifies taking the lowest possible discount rate for far-distant future cash flows. His argument relies on the arbitrary assumption that when the future rate of return of capital (RRC) is uncertain, one should...

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Avoiding Extinction: Equal Treatment of the Present and the Future

Chichilnisky, Graciela - 2009

Equal treatment for the present and the future was required in two axioms for sustainable development introduced by the author. This article shows that the two axioms are equivalent to awareness of physical limits in the long run future. We prove that two optimization problems are equivalent :...

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Politics, globalization, and food crisis discourse

Esposo Guerrero, Bernard Joseph - 2010

The literature on food security has mainly been focused on causes, effects, and/or the nature of the crisis. However, there have been only a few attempts to understand how the discourse on the subject matter was shaped and is still being shaped at present. Food security is at the intersection of...

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Financing "a sustainable food future": Some thoughts for the G20

Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio - 2018

, those that have been called Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) or Climate-friendly Sustainable Agriculture (CFSA). It explores …

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An evidence-based approach to ending rural hunger

Kharas, Homi Jamshed; McArthur, John W.; von Braun, Joachim - 2017

Progress toward food and nutrition security (FNS) needs to be sharply accelerated in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal for ending hunger and malnutrition, especially in rural areas. The G20 should target interventions and investment opportunities to maximize impact on people and...

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Determinants of transport costs: Are they uniform across countries?

Schürenberg-Frosch, Hannah - 2012

The author shows with pooled OLS estimations based on transport margins from international social accounting data that investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can only be clearly confirmed for industrial...

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Why should sub-Saharan Africa care about the Doha development round?

Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; Al Doyaili, Sarah - 2012

In recent years sub-Saharan Africa, notwithstanding the global financial crisis, has increased its share in global trade and investment flows. This has led to an appreciable improvement in development levels, albeit off a small base. However, these patterns are still dominated by commodity flows...

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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future

Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - 2013

Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …

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Productive Base Sustainability under Climate Change: Theoretical Results and Empirical Evidence

Vouvaki, Dimitra; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2009

Climate change is one of the most urgent and severe problems on the international agenda and one of the basic factors that determine sustainability conditions. This paper attempts to reveal the connection between productive base sustainability for two large groups of countries, developed and...

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The Sustainable Development Goals and the systems approach to sustainability

Barbier, Edward; Burgess, Joanne C. - 2017

The authors explore the link between the systems approach to sustainability and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were formally adopted by the UN in 2015. The systems approach depicts sustainable development as the intersection of the goals attributed to three interlinked...

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