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Protected Areas and Deforestation : New Results from High Resolution Panel Data

Blankespoor, Brian - 2017

This paper investigates the effectiveness of protected areas in slowing tropical forest clearing in 64 countries in Asia/Pacific, Africa, and Latin America for the period 2001-2012. The investigation compares deforestation rates inside and within 10 kilometers outside the boundary of protected...

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Modeling Uncertainty in Large Natural Resource Allocation Problems

Cai, Yongyang - 2020

The productivity of the world's natural resources is critically dependent on a variety of highly uncertain factors, which obscure individual investors and governments that seek to make long-term, sometimes irreversible investments in their exploration and utilization. These dynamic...

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Natural Capital, Ecological Scarcity and Rural Poverty

Barbier, Edward B. - 2017

Much of the rural poor -- who are growing in number -- are concentrated in ecologically fragile and remote areas. The key ecological scarcity problem facing such poor households is a vicious cycle of declining livelihoods, increased ecological degradation and loss of resource commons, and...

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Are Natural Resources Cursed? An Investigation of the Dynamic Effects of Resource Dependence on Institutional Quality

De Rosa, Donato - 2017

This paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the potential effects of other geographic, economic and cultural initial conditions. Analysis of a panel of countries from 1996 to 2010 indicates...

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A Review of Solar Energy : Markets, Economics and Policies

Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017

Solar energy has experienced phenomenal growth in recent years due to both technological improvements resulting in cost reductions and government policies supportive of renewable energy development and utilization. This study analyzes the technical, economic and policy aspects of solar energy...

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Push and Pull : A Study of International Migration from Nepal

Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2017

framework are tested in the context of international migration from Nepal, using a panel of 452 villages observed at three …

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Death Scares : How Potential Work-Migrants Infer Mortality Rates from Migrant Deaths

Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2017

of migrant workers from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries, the study finds that the death of a migrant …

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Get Rich or Die Tryin' : Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rate and the Value of a Statistical Life of Potential Work-Migrants from Nepal

Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2017

paper sets up and analyzes a randomized field experiment among 3,319 potential work migrants from Nepal to Malaysia and the …

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Forest Carbon Supply in Nepal : Evidence from a Choice Experiment

Dissanayake, Sahan - 2018

This paper uses a choice experiment conducted in Nepal during 2013 to estimate household-level willingness to … Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation pilots in Nepal, this study finds that relatively little emission … Nepal and likely other countries. The study finds that average and median values of payment required for agreement to reduce …

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Survey of the Nepal Private Equity and Venture Capital Environment

Divakaran, Shanthi - 2019

This paper discusses the landscape for private equity and venture capital financing in Nepal. It provides an overview … as legal/regulatory/taxation drivers and impediments that affect Nepal?s private equity and venture capital industry …

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