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This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2,...
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China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank …Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …
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We examine empirically the effect of natural resource abundance on economic growth. We find that natural resources have a negative impact on growth when considered in isolation, but a positive impact on growth when including in the analysis other variables such as corruption, investments,...
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Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....
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