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Absolute abundance and relative scarcity : announced policy, resource extraction, and carbon emissions
Di Maria, Corrado; Smulders, Sjak; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2008
We study the effectiveness of climate change policy in a model with multiple non-renewable resources that differ in their carbon content. We find that, when allowing some time between announcement and implementation of a cap on carbon dioxide emissions, emissions from non-renewable energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799171
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Sustainability and substitution of exhaustible natural resources : how resource prices affect long-term R&D investments
Bretschger, Lucas; Smulders, Sjak - 2003
Traditional resource economics has been criticised for assuming too high elasticities of substitution, not observing material balance principles and relying too much on planner solutions to obtain long-term growth. By analysing a multi-sector R&D-based endogenous growth model with exhaustible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592713
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The economic and ecological impact of natural resource extraction : the case of the Camisea Gas Project in Peru
Corral, Leonardo; Schling, Maja; Montiel, César - 2018
This paper presents the first rigorous empirical evidence of the impact of a large hydrocarbon project in both its economic and environmental dimension. Concentrating on Peru’s largest hydrocarbon project, the Camisea Gas Project, which began operating in the dense Amazonian jungle under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927056
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Digging deep : resource exploitation and higher education
Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Rivera, … - 2022
Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in...
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The local human capital cost of oil exploitation
Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Mori, Raul … - 2021
This paper explores the impacts of oil exploitation on human capital accumulation at the local level in Colombia, a resource-rich developing country. We provide evidence based on detailed spatial and temporal data on oil exploitation and education, using the number of wells drilled as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012586721
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Extractive industries and the financing of child-inclusive social development in the Philippines : trends and policy frameworks
Magno, Cielo - 2016
The success of a developmental strategy based on the extraction of non-renewable resources is largely dependent on the share of revenues captured by the state from the extractive sector and the modalities that governments adopt to use and distribute those revenues. In the last two decades, local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485103
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Unraveling the network of the extractive industries
Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Guerra, Alfredo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2021
This paper analyzes extractive industries in Colombia and their connections to other economic activities in the country. We use detailed social security data on all formal employees to create an industry-relatedness measure using labor flows between industries. Drawing on the vast network...
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The political economy of financing childrenś rights through extractive industries in the Philippines
Singh, Jewellord T. Nem; Grugel, Jean; Hatcher, Pascale - 2016
Philippines as a case study and provides a detailed analysis of two key aspects of mining governance: first, the political … expansion of the EI sector is contested in the public domain, the link between mining governance and the promotion and … take a more active role in laying the foundations of a mining governance framework, bargain with key stakeholders to reach …
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Extractive industries, revenue allocation and local politics
Arellano-Yanguas, Francisco Javier; Mejía Acosta, Andrés - 2014
The success of a developmental strategy based on the extraction of non-renewable resources is largely dependent on the share of revenues captured by the state from the extractive sector and the modalities that governments adopt to use and distribute those revenues. In the last two decades, local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485102
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Seemingly irrelevant factors and willingness to block polluting investments
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Balza, Lenin H.; Bejarano, Hernan; … - 2023
Using an online multi-country video-vignette survey experiment, we measure bias against extractive industries and foreign firms in individuals perceptions and preferences related to industrial projects with potential economic benefits and environmental costs. Individuals face a hypothetical...
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