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El Niño and Indian droughts: A scoping exercise

Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014

Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...

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Credit policy for agriculture in India: An evaluation. Supporting Indian farms the smart way. Rationalising subsidies and investments for faster, inclusive and sustainable growth

Hoda, Anwarul; Terway, Prerna - 2015

, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural … areas particularly to assist in agricultural operations. It began with the enactment of the Co-operative Credit Societies … noninstitutional lenders still account for only 36 per cent of the total outstanding agricultural loan, the short-term credit from …

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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods

Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Anna - 2007

This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...

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Allowing for household preferences in emission trading-A contribution to the climate policy debate

Ahlheim, Michael; Schneider, Friedrich - 2000

In the context of emission trading it seems to be taken as given that people's preferences can be ignored with respect to the whole process of fixing emission targets and allocating emission permits to polluters. With this paper we want to reopen the debate on how citizens can be involved in...

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What does it take to sell environmental policy? An empirical analysis of referendum data

Halbheer, Daniel; Niggli, Sarah; Schmutzler, Armin - 2005

We analyze the factors that influence the support for environmental policy proposals. Swiss referendum data show that proposals obtain more yes-votes if they do not restrict consumption possibilities directly, if they are endorsed by the largest business association, if environmental preferences...

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Letting states do the dirty work: State responsibility for federal environmental regulation

Sigman, Hilary - 2002

Under most U.S. environmental regulations, the federal government shares responsibility with the states by authorizing them to implement and enforce federal policies. Authorization provides states with considerable discretion over the effects of regulation and is perhaps the most significant...

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International spillovers and water quality in rivers: Do countries free ride?

Sigman, Hilary - 2001

Transboundary spillovers may degrade environmental quality if countries free ride. This paper examines the extent of such degradation in water quality in international rivers. Using data from river monitoring stations in the UN's Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS), it compares...

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Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment

Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich; Wagner, Alexander - 2008

Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...

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Is There A Green Link A Panel Data Value Event Study Of The Relationship Between Capital Markets And Toxic Releases

Ananthanarayanan, Amarnath - 1998

This paper attempts to look at the effectiveness of public provision of pollution information in providing incentives for firms to control pollution. This is achieved by examining the effect of release of pollution information on the market value of firms. The paper conducts a value event study...

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The impact of the increasing demand for biofuels in the EU on the possibility to conduct collective action for reaching a common good: The changes in the community-based management of the common pastures in Ethiopia

Miteva, Pavlina - 2014

The negative impact of EU biofuel policy on the agricultural markets, carbon emissions and global land use has been evidenced through many studies. Besides the often affirmed negative implications, the paper suggests that in countries targeted by land investments for biofuel production, there...

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