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The Trade Reducing Effects of Market Power in International Shipping

Hummels, David L. - 2007

distance, and significantly contribute to the higher shipping prices facing the developing world. Markups increase shipping … and perhaps lower incomes. This paper investigates price discrimination in the shipping industry and the role it plays in … determining transportation costs. In the presence of market power, shipping prices depend on the demand characteristics of goods …

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The role of insurance in international shipping costs

Wolanski, Adrian - In: Economics letters 155 (2017), pp. 116-120

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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth

Popp, David - 2014

By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...

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The Illusion of Sustainability

Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward - 2021

The history of foreign development assistance is one of movement away from addressing immediate needs and toward focusing on the underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards sustainability,' which stresses community mobilization, education, and cost-recovery. This...

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The Baker Hypothesis

Chari, Anusha; Henry; Reyes, Hector - 2022

lead to faster growth in countries then known as the Third World, but now categorized as emerging and developing economies …

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Democracy Does Cause Growth

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

We provide evidence that democracy has a significant and robust positive effect on GDP. Our empirical strategy relies on a dichotomous measure of democracy coded from several sources to reduce measurement error and controls for country fixed effects and the rich dynamics of GDP, which otherwise...

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