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Solar PV rural electrification and energy-poverty: A review and conceptual framework with reference to Ghana
Obeng, George Yaw; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In spite of the intention of governments to increase the use of renewable energy in electricity supply, particularly the use of solar photovoltaic (PV) for energy poverty reduction in rural and peri-urban areas of Africa, there is relatively little information on how solar PV electrification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059114
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In what format and under what timeframe would China take on climate commitments? A roadmap to 2050
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Given that China is already the world’s largest carbon emitter and its emissions continue to rise rapidly in line with … its industrialization and urbanization, there is no disagreement that China eventually needs to take on binding greenhouse … gas emissions caps. However, the key challenges are when that would occur and what credible interim targets China would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025683
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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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An axiomatic approach to sustainable development
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
The paper proposes two axioms that capture the idea of sustainable development and derives the welfare criterion that they imply. The axioms require that neither the present nor the future should play a dictatorial role. Theorem 1 shows there exist sustainable preferences, which satisfy these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836308
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Development and social security system sustainability
Burz, Răzvan-Dorin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper we propose to investigate the link between economic development, social security system and the sustainability of the policies pursued by states. In doing so, we start from clarifying and summarizing the main ideas on the concepts of development and social security. Depending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257786
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A Theoretical Approach for Dynamic Modelling of Sustainable Development
Ene, Corina-Maria; Gheorghiu, Anda; Gheorghiu, Anca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article presents a theoretical model for a dynamic system based on sustainable development. Due to the relatively absence of theoretical studies and practical issues in the area of sustainable development, Romania aspires to the principles of sustainable development. Based on the concept as...
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Sustainable development and North-South trade
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
The present acceleration of environmental destruction can be linked to the economic trading strategies that came into vogue after World War II. The theory of comparative advantages of trade, which recommends that developing countries emphasize resource exports and exports of labor-intensive...
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Degrowth and sustainable public finance
Pasche, Markus - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459233
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The Effectiveness of Competition Policy: An Econometric Assessment in Developed and Developing Countries
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
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Financial instruments for human development
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Economics often provides the wrong incentives to those who control the assets, such as people in developing countries where most forests are located and who could potentially benefit most from conservation . There is increasing unease about this situation, and an emerging view is that standard...
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