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needed; the largest positive impact on climate and health now would come from having such assets emit less. More recognition … revenue (by penalties and gas sales), improving health (by reducing air pollution), and helping to deliver greater energy …
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lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel …
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energy-transition fuel under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and to improve air quality and health. Wide …
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and gas operations, as well as their emissions and impact on air quality, health, and climate. While global flaring and … venting comprise 7.5 per cent of natural gas produced, their combined impact on health and climate (in terms of Social Cost of …
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understanding the nature and extent of interactions between firms and their employees within zones, the extent to which zones …
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The paper discusses the practical possibilities of achieving increased downstream processing and the policies that are commonly used for this purpose. It reviews the reasons why forward vertical integration is not always an optimal choice for extractive industry companies. It finds little...
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Local content policies in the context of extractive industries have attracted increased interest in recent years. Most countries with a significant extractive industry have included local content requirements either in their legislation or exploitation contracts. Such efforts may be constrained...
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After the Second World War, Mozambique went through a series of transformations, from an incipient industrializing colonial society to an independent country with a central planned economy, plus a regional and internal war, and finally from 1994 onwards, a multi-party democracy with a mix of...
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cluster formation. It is also possible that for some firms there may be disadvantages associated with locating close to … firms in developing country settings at the early stage of industrialization, where physical infrastructure is … underdeveloped and there are a large number of informal and service sector firms that often exclusively rely on customers in local …
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In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data …-selection and endogenous location choice of firms in an estimation of firm level productivity. Controlling for competition effects … from clustering. The effects of these spillovers are found to be particularly large for foreign-owned firms. Our results …
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