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options that each are capable of contributing significantly to the abatement of global CO2 emissions: nuclear energy and coal … extensive the improvements of coal-based power equipped with CCS technology would need to be if our model is to significantly … scale down the construction of new nuclear power plants. -- Economic Competition ; Electricity Sector ; Nuclear Power ; Coal …
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comparing the current state of the coal sector and just transition policies away from coal. How can social justice in the energy … transition policies and legislations for workers and communities impacted by the coal phase down or phase out in recent years … work towards ensuring the integration of coal workers and coal communities into the clean economy in the process of coal …
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Although nutrition contributes to welfare in and of itself, it also contributes to individual economic productivity, as well as national income growth. The argument that improving nutrition is an investment on par with other productivity-enhancing expenditures rather than simply a form of...
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This paper evaluates the effect of shocks in government investment on private investment and national income, focusing on "crowding-in" or "crowding-out" effect in India. Recent studies do not deal with this issue by taking account of the heterogeneous effect of public investment as regards to...
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This paper analyzes the impact of Mapa- Regalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the extractives sector. The purpose of the platform is to...
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We show that some types of fiscal rules can mitigate the well-known procyclical bias in public capital expenditures. Past research has found that fiscal adjustment episodes coincide with large public investment cuts, a pattern we also document in a sample of 75 advanced and emerging economies...
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