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Health Consequences of Child Labour in Bangladesh
Ahmed, Salma; Ray, Ranjan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or … illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002 … subjective health across age groups, we find that health disadvantages for different age groups are not essentially parallel. …
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The Nature of Innovation Channels at the Micro-Level : Evidence from Russian Manufacturing Firms
Simachev, Yuri; Kuzyk, Mikhail; Feygina, Vera - 2013
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153492
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A simple chemical free arsenic removal method for community water supply - A case study from West Bengal, India
Sen Gupta, Bhaskar; Chatterjee, S.; Rott, U; Kauffman, H; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
scientists (www.qub.ac.uk/tipot) to remove arsenic (As) from groundwater in a village in West Bengal, India. Six such plants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108001
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Ground Water Pollution and Emerging Environmental Challenges of Industrial Effluent Irrigation: A Case Study of Mettupalayam Taluk, Tamilnadu
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Nelliyat, Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Industrial disposal of effluents on land and the subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands – is a relatively new area of research. The environmental and socioeconomic aspects of industrial effluent irrigation have not been studied as extensively as domestic sewage...
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India’s urban environment: air and water pollution and pollution abatement
Sridhar, Kala S.; Kumar, Surender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper focuses on air and water pollution in India’s cities, provides empirical evidence to demonstrate the seriousness of the challenges, discusses the relevant policies of national and local government that are used to address the challenges, discusses relevant political economy issues...
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Ecological Economics of Water in China: Towards A Strategy for Sustainable Development
Khan, Haider; Liu, Yibei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
and rapid deterioration of water quality poses grave health and other types of environmental threats. If these threats are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787145
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Regulator reputation, enforcement, and environmental compliance
Shimshack, Jay P.; Ward, Michael B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explores empirically the impact of enforcement efforts on environmental compliance, focusing on the role of regulator reputation spillover effects. We find that, on the margin, the impact of a fine for water pollutant violations is about a two-thirds reduction in the statewide...
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Enforcement and over-compliance
Shimshack, Jay P.; Ward, Michael B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Economists generally view environmental enforcement as a tool to secure compliance with regulations. This paper demonstrates that credible enforcement significantly increases statutory over-compliance with regulations as well. We find that many plants with discharges typically below legally...
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The anthropogenic influence on Cuejdi River water quality
Ghiurca, Ana-Andreea; Lamasanu, Andreea; Mihai, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Water pollution is caused in rural areas, especially by uncontrolled waste deposits located in river bed and in urban areas is discharged, irregular, untreated sewage. The Cuejdiu River is a tributary of the Bitriţa River in the left side, with a total length of 24 km. Evaluation of water...
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Sharing a polluted river network
Dong, Baomin; Ni, Debing; Wang, Yuntong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
A polluted river network is populated with agents (e.g., firms, villages, municipalities, or countries) located upstream and downstream. This river network must be cleaned, the costs of which must be shared among the agents. We model this problem as a cost sharing problem on a tree network....
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