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The impact of trade and trade policy on the environment and the climate : a review

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peterson, Sonja; Wanner, Joschka - 2022

While international trade can offer gains from specialization and access to a wider range of products, it is also closely interlinked with global environmental problems, above all, anthropogenic climate change. This survey provides a structured overview of the economic literature on the...

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Reaching a climate agreement : do we have to compensate for energy market effects of climate policy?

Peterson, Sonja; Weitzel, Matthias - 2014

Because of large economic and environmental asymmetries among world regions and the incentive to free ride, an … additionally an "equal loss" Scenario where welfare losses relative to a Business as usual Scenario are equal for all Major world …

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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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Sectoral aid priorities : are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer - 2006

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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Exploring the politics of poverty reduction : how are the poorest represented?

Hickey, Sam (ed.); Bracking, Sarah (ed.) - 2005

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Exploring the politics of chronic poverty : from representation to a politics of justice?

Hickey, Sam; Bracking, Sarah - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 33 (2005) 6, pp. 851-865

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Climate policies after Paris : pledge, trade, and recycle : insights from the 36th Energy Modeling Forum study (EMF36)

Böhringer, Christoph; Peterson, Sonja; Rutherford, … - 2021

This article summarizes insights of the 36th Energy Modeling Forum study (EMF36) on the magnitude and distribution of economic adjustment costs to greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Under the Paris Agreement countries voluntarily committed themselves to emission reductions - so-called...

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Fossil fuel subsidy inventories vs. net carbon prices : a consistent approach for measuring fossil fuel price incentives

Böhm, Jens; Peterson, Sonja - 2021

Different reports including the broadly cited OECD fossil fuel subsidy inventory arrive at high monetary values of fossil fuel subsidies and suggest that phasing out these subsidies has a high potential to increase the efficiency of climate policies. We show that the inventory approach gives...

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