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How Much is the Amazon Worth? The State of Knowledge Concerning the Value of Preserving Amazon Rainforests
May, Peter H.; Silveira Soares-Filho, Soares-Filho; … - 2014
This paper surveys the current state of knowledge concerning the value of the Amazon rainforest, including a survey of … work to date to quantify changes in economic values when the rainforest cover changes. The focus is on local and regional … from a sustainably maintained rainforest; local values of eco-tourism; biological resources including bio-prospecting; a …
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The Role of Tropical Forests in Supporting Biodiversity and Hydrological Integrity : A Synoptic Overview
Douglas, Ellen M.; Sebastian, Kate; V??r??smarty, Charles J. - 2012
Conservation of high-biodiversity tropical forests is sometimes justified on the basis of assumed hydrological benefits - in particular, the reduction of flooding hazards for downstream floodplain populations. However, the "far-field" link between deforestation and distant flooding has been...
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Valuing Global Public Goods : A European Delphi Stated Preference Survey of Population Willingness to Pay for Amazon Rainforest Preservation
Navrud, St??le; Strand, Jon - 2014
The Amazon Rainforest is a global public good. As such, and given that 15 percent of the original Amazon forest area … Rainforest of about 28 Euro per household per year on average; a slightly lower value is inferred for a plan that allows a 10 … percent future reduction from the current rainforest area. The income elasticity of experts' stated willingness to pay with …
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Environmental Federalism : A Panacea or Pandora???s Box for Developing Countries?
Fredriksson, Per G.; Mani, Muthukumara; Wollscheid, Jim R. - 2012
This paper provides new empirical evidence to the debate on the optimal locus of power over environmental policymaking in developing countries. The authors develop a simple lobby group model with mobile capital. The model predicts that a decentralized institutional structure leads to weaker...
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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth
Popp, David - 2013
By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...
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Combatting Forest Fires in the Drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa
Adjognon, Guigonan Serge; Nguyen Huy, Tung; van Soest, Daan - 2023
Forest fires are among the main drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses remote sensing data on forest fires and remaining tree cover to estimate the effectiveness of a project targeted at reducing fire incidences in twelve protected...
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Advanced-Country Policies and Emerging-Market Currencies
Ikeda, Yuki; Medvedev, Denis; Rama, Martin - 2015
The global financial crisis and its aftermath have triggered extraordinary policy responses in advanced countries. The impacts of these policy responses—from asset price bubbles to currency depreciations—have often been felt in the developing world. As tapering talk evolves into actual...
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Good Countries or Good Projects?
Bulman, David; Kolkma, Walter; Kraay, Aart - 2015
This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and 1,342 Asian Development Bank projects. Project outcomes vary much more within countries than between countries: country-level characteristics explain only 10–25 percent of...
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Monitoring Financial Stability in Developing and Emerging Economies
Dijkman, Miquel - 2015
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, interest in systemic risk has surged among academics and policy makers. The mitigation of systemic risk is now widely accepted as the fundamental underlying concept for the design of the post-crisis regulatory agenda. Effective mitigation requires...
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Exploring Carbon Pricing in Developing Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis in Ethiopia
Benitez, Pablo; Medhin, Haileselassie; Tamru, Seneshaw; … - 2019
This study uses a computable general equilibrium model to analyze various policy scenarios for a carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum fuels and kerosene in Ethiopia. The carbon tax starts at $5 per ton of carbon dioxide in 2018 and rises to $30 per ton in 2030. Different...
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