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How can LDCs benefit from the CDM?: A panel data analysis of determinants of CDM project hosting
Kasai, Katsuya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The CDM plays an important role in the international GHG reduction activities. However, the distribution of CDM … identify the determinants of CDM project hosting in order to suggest potential measures for LDCs based on empirical evidence … the private sector, have positive impacts on hosting CDM projects. This paper, therefore, denotes that the effective way …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108597
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Factors Affecting the Distribution of CERs: A Cross-Sectional Empirical Analysis
Kasai, Katsuya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The CDM has promoted GHG reduction activities in developing countries. There is, however, a controversial issue of an … unequal distribution of CDM benefits among developing nations. To date, some emerging economies have been receiving the … that CDM activities in LDCs have been implemented against the principle of market mechanism. Ultimately, this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110380
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A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis of Determinants of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Projects
Kasai, Katsuya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The CDM seems to play a significant role in international GHG reduction activities. Yet, a few emerging countries have … hosted majority of CDM projects whereas most LDCs have not hosted CDM projects at all. Given the current distributional … imbalance, this study aims to identify determinants of CDM project hosting based on an empirical analysis using the tobit model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258122
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An empirical investigation of socio-economic resilience to natural disasters
Akter, Sonia; Mallick, Bishawjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper presents an empirical investigation of socio-economic resilience to natural disasters of a tropical cyclone-prone coastal community in Bangladesh. It applies the state-and-transition model, a widely used applied ecology model, to (1) assess the current state of socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259055
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The Legal Framework of Vietnam’s Water Sector: Update 2013
Nguyen, Thi Phuong Loan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In order to deal with problems related to both water quality and quantity as well as to strengthen the sustainable and integrative management of the nation’s water resources, the Vietnamese Government has adopted a wide spectrum of laws and regulations. In recent years, more than 300 water...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259077
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The impact of government expenditure on the environment: An empirical investigation
Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the impact of government spending on the environment using a panel of 77 countries for the time period 1980-2000. We estimate both the direct effect of government spending on pollution and the indirect effect which operates through government spending impact on per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260127
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Discounting, Distribution and Disaggregation
Yamaguchi, Rintaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To consider the implication of disaggregated consumption and discounting, we study discounting in a world composed of the rich and the poor, a standard setting in the literature of cost-benefit analysis with distributional considerations. We derive several discount rates for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260941
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Linking developing country's cooperation on climate control with industrialized country's R&D and technology transfer
Kemfert, Claudia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Using a world multi-sectoral, multi-regional trade model, this paper has investigated the economic and environmental implications of climate control coalitions cooperating on R&D investment that triggers low cost environmentally friendly technologies. We start with the Kyoto scenario where all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261180
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Dry Times in Africa: Rainfall and Africa's Growth Performance
Barrios, Salvador; Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
While there have been some references in the literature to the potential role of the general decline in rainfall in sub-Saharan African nations on their poor growth performance relative to other developing countries, this avenue remains empirically unexplored. In this paper we use a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260338
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Health, income inequality and climate related disasters at household level: reflections from an Orissa District
Narayanan, K.; Sahu, Santosh Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Rural households tend to rely heavily on climate-sensitive resources. Climate Change can reduce the availability of these local natural resources, limiting the options for rural households that depend on natural resources for consumption or economic activities. During and after the climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372594