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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy
Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
agriculture, a rapidly increasing share of the population migrates to urban centers in search for employment opportunities outside … employment opportunities in either rural or the urban sector are not growing adequately. This paper attempts to analyze the … capacities in order to create adequate employment and incomes for the rapidly growing population---particularly in the urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789299
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Weather and Income: Lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130323
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Economic Convergence with Divergence in Environmental Quality? Desertification Risk and the Economic Structure of a Mediterranean Country (1960-2010)
Esposito, Piero; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Perini, Luigi; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present study investigates the relationship between land vulnerability to desertification and the evolution of the productive structure in Italy during the last fifty years (1960-2010). The objectives of the study are two-fold: (i) to present and discuss an original analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114232
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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Sustainability and human development: a proposal for a sustainability adjusted HDI (SHDI)
Pineda, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper proposes a sustainability-adjusted HDI in which country’s achievements in human development are penalized, to reflect the over-exploitation of the environment and its relative intensity. The human development approach has been a powerful framework in the past for advancing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260974
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Еко-управление в българското селското стопанство
Bachev, Hrabrin; Yovchevska, Plamena; Mitova, Dilyana; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study is a part of the research project on “Eco-management in agriculture” funded by the Agricultural Academy with period of implementation 2013-2014. This report summarizes the results of the first year and includes: - state of the studies in the area; - theoretical and methodological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261079
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Regulación Ambiental: Los Bosques Nativos, una Visión Económica
Marco Emilio, Salusso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The forests offer to the society Environmental Goods and Services, which are not recognized on the market. This generates not sustainable use of the forest resources. Because of this situation the State must define an Environmental Politics, to achieve his sustainable use. In order to achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059101
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Indicadores de Desenvolvimento: Uma Resenha em Construção
Oliveira, Juliana Melo; Lages, André Maia Gomes; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The objective of this work is to present in summary form, the historical development of social indicators in Brazil and the methodology adopted by each of them. The indicators used were the HDI, the IDS, the Idsa, the Gini Index and GDP Green. The proposal is to make a comparative analysis to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919750
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The economic and environmental factors of water in arid regions: Study of the rural water use in Northern Darfur Region, Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We develop hypothetical policy scenarios in this part of the paper which are simulated using a product-by-industry economic-ecological model to investigate their impacts on water and other ecological commodities. Results are expected to contribute to the establishment of alternative policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147859
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"Economic Growth and the Natural World"
Wesson, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This is a survey of some ideas relating to the theory of economic growth and how economic growth impacts the natural world.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111571