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Regulation, renegotiation and capital structure : theory and evidence from Latin American transport concessions

Moore, Alexander; Straub, Stéphane; Dethier, Jean-Jacques - 2013

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Understanding the economic impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation policies on shipping : what is the state of the art of current modeling approaches?

Halim, Ronald A.; Smith, Tristan; Englert, Dominik - 2019

increase maritime transport costs by 0.4 percent to 16 percent. However, this would only marginally increase the import prices … of goods (by less than 1 percent). For transport choices, the increased cost of maritime transport induced by greenhouse … gas mitigation measures might only slightly reduce the share of maritime transport, by 0.16 percent globally. Furthermore …

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Agriculture and the macroeconomy

Schiff, Maurice W.; Valdés, Alberto - 1998

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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics

Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

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Generating gridded agricultural gross domestic product for Brazil : a comparison of methodologies

Thomas, Timothy S.; You, Liangzhi; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; … - 2019

This paper examines two new methods to generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and compares the results with a traditional method. In the case of Brazil, these two new methods of spatial disaggregation and cross-entropy outperform the prediction of agricultural GDP from the...

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The growth of transport sector CO 2 emissions and underlying factors in Latin America and the Caribbean

Timilsina, Govinda R. (contributor); … - 2008

"This study examines the factors responsible for the growth of transport sector carbon dioxide emissions in 20 Latin … factors driving transport sector carbon dioxide emissions growth in the countries considered. The results imply that fiscal … countries where the economic activity effect is the primary driver for transport sector carbon dioxide emissions growth. By …