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International trade and pollution in shared resources: A study of international rivers

Sigman, Hilary - 2002

This paper examines whether trade relationships facilitate resolution of international environmental spillovers. Trade might promote cooperation by providing opportunities for implicit side payments, allowing linkage between nvironmental and trade concessions, providing direct leverage over...

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Energy intensity and structural changes: Does offshoring matter?

Amadei, Claudia; Dosi, Cesare; Pintus, Francesco J. - 2024

The decoupling of energy-related carbon emissions from economic growth has been mostly driven by reductions of the energy intensity of GDP, which can be attributed either to changes in countries' economic structure or within-sector energy-efficiency improvements. One question is whether observed...

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Trade in Environmental Goods: Empirical Exploration of Direct and Indirect Effects on Pollution by Country’s Trade Status

Zugravu-Soilita, Natalia - 2017

Based on panel data covering 114 countries in the world, this study investigates the direct, indirect and total effects of trade flows in environmental goods (EG) on total CO2 and SO2 emissions. Our system-GMM estimations reveal positive direct scale – [between-industry] composition effects...

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Should we sustain? And if so, sustain what? Consumption or the quality of life?

Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012

Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...

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Is high-speed rail green? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Nie, Liang; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2021

Existing studies have investigated the environmental dividends of substituting high-speed rail for other energy-intensive vehicles from an engineering standpoint, but they have yet to explore the economic effects of high-speed rail and the associated carbon emission reduction benefits. To fill...

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Better to grow or better to improve? Measuring environmental efficiency in OECD countries with a Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier

Badunenko, Oleg; Galeotti, Marzio; Hunt, Lester C. - 2021

The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many...

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Environment and labour on the trade agenda: Lessons for India from the TPP Agreement

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2017

This paper undertakes an evaluation of the Labour and Environment chapters of the TPP Agreement, with a view to … on the environment. The paper does not recommend a change in our stance on keeping environment and labour out of … between trade in goods and services with labour and environment and there is no advantage to be gained by developing countries …

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A Simple Model of Trade, Job Task Offshoring and Social Insurance

Thede, Susanna - 2012

We provide a simple model of trade, job task offshoring and social insurance to identify economic mechanisms through which the interplay between insurance design, (final-goods) trade and job task offshoring determine domestic producer conditions. A skill-abundant home country that may have more...

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Trade and payments theory in a financialized economy

Hudson, Michael - 2011

Ricardian trade theory was based on the cost of labor at a time when grain and other consumer goods accounted for most subsistence spending. But today's budgets are dominated by payments to the finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) sector and to newly privatized monopolies. This has made...

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When one country's land gain is another country's land loss...: The social, ecological and economic dimensions of sand extraction in the context of world-systems analysis exemplified by Singapore's sand imports

Franke, Maria - 2014

Singapore industrialised rapidly with continuously high growth rates since its independence in 1965 and its population during the same period of time almost tripled. With development at this scale, Singapore had to grow in number of industrial and residential buildings as well as in size through...

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