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To explain the patterns of world trade of resources, this paper combines the biological dynamics of the renewable resource and game theoretical explanations of its extraction under different property regimes, with a general equilibrium model of North South trade (Chichilnisky, 1981, 1986). The...
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Major pharmaceutical companies such as Smith Kline Beecham, Merck, Glaxo and Lilly, and a score of smaller ones, are developing profitable business opportunities in the world's forest while preserving biodiversity and producing incentives for leaving the forests intact. This case study covers...
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In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we present a model that fits the evolution of property...
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send remittances. It also analyses the consequences of internal migration on the wellbeing of migrants and their family and … migration, but are worse off in many aspects, e.g. housing. This is because they live in poor, semi-legal conditions and because … migration is an expensive investment. Consequently, family solidarity remains high after migration, especially financial and …
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For Russia, migration policy – in terms of internal or/and international migration flows management – was an ever … presents a historical overview of the Soviet and Russian migration policies with special emphases on the impact on human … industrializing economy. In the post-Soviet period, international migration is the major focus of the Russian migration policy. The …
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This paper focuses on the specific question of how Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) address migration and its … migration often remains poorly recognised or analysed in poorer countries in terms of its impacts on poverty reduction, whilst … attitudes towards migration in these countries are often highly negative and/or based on limited evidence, especially in …
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The purpose of this research is to evaluate the hypothesis of differentiated growth in the municipalities of Colombia which receives rents from exploitation of non-renewable natural resources in comparison with the rest of the country. A specific strategy is to estimate the empirical evidence...
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work as an important source of money for migration and MFIs can also trained migrant worker according to their importers …
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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary...
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When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
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