Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 78
Cover Image
On the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Is there Multivariate Convergence?
Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021
This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for … desired levels according to the prescription of the SDG of per water, energy and food capita consumption is reached by each … investment have a positive accelerating effect on food convergence as well as on energy convergence. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501724
Cover Image
The “Curse of Resources†Revisited: A Different Story from China
Fang, Ying; Qi, Li; Zhao, Yang - 2013
Whether natural resources boost or deter economic development remains an open question in the literature. Papyrakis and Gerlagh (2007) found a significant negative association between economic growth and resource abundance at a U.S.-state level. They demonstrated that resource abundance crowds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010892094
Cover Image
祸兮ç¦å…®ï¼šä¸­å›½å­˜åœ¨â€œèµ„æºè¯…å’’â€å—？
方颖; 纪衎; 赵扬 - 2013
...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010892100
Cover Image
Resource Abundance and Economic Growth in China
Fan, Rui; Fang, Ying; Park, Sung Y. - 2013
This paper studies the resource curse phenomenon in China. The “resource curse†is an important claim that the resource-abundant economies grow at a slower pace than the resource-scarce economies do. There are many recent studies that analyze the resource curse phenomenon theoretically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010892102
Cover Image
A policy analysis of the EU Emissions Trading System and its crisis
Ruf, Julia Anna - 2017
This paper provides a policy analysis of the EU Emissions Trading System and its crisis. The aim of the research is to give an answer to the question why the EU Emissions Trading System is in crisis and cannot be revised in an effective way. Therefore, the policy process of the revision of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595853
Cover Image
Common drivers in emerging market spreads and commodity prices
Bastourre, Diego; Carrera, Jorge; Ibarlucia, Javier; … - 2012
This paper presents and evaluates the hypothesis that emerging countries specialized in commodity production are prone to experience non orthogonal commercial and financial shocks. Specifically, we investigate a set of global macroeconomic variables that, in principle, could simultaneously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417923
Cover Image
Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? Evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of high value crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned by males, while the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460729
Cover Image
The impact of geography an natural resource abundance on growth in Central Asia
Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav - 2010
This paper examines the growth experience of the Central Asian economies after the breakup of the Soviet Union. In particular, it evaluates the impact of being landlocked and resource rich. The main conclusions are: (1) Over the period 1994-2006, the landlocked resourcescarce developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281703
Cover Image
Disaggregating the resource curse: Is the curse more difficult to dispel in oil states than in mineral states?
Azarchs, Timothy; Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010
The hypothesis of the natural resource curse has captivated the economics profession, and since the mid-1990s has generated a large body of policymaking initiatives aimed at dispelling the curse. In this paper, we evaluate how the effect of resource abundance on economic growth has changed since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281737
Cover Image
When does improving health raise GDP?
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Lester, Ashley; Weil, David N. - 2008
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284028