particular generate in two important sectors?transport and agriculture?in two countries in the Middle East and North Africa, the … Arab Republic of Egypt (transport) and the Republic of Yemen (agriculture). The focus is mainly on the costs associated … with congestion and pollution, as well as the impact of underpriced energy for depletion of scarce water resources …

This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new … deforestation, pollution, and carbon intensities. Per capita emissions follow a $J$-curve. Specifically, poverty reduction occurs …

This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …

endowments and environmental policies have only marginally affected the pollution content of world trade during the 1986 …This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the … pollution content of trade (measured by the pollution content of imports, PCI) and decomposing it into three components - a deep …

This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the … pollution content of trade (measured by the polluction content of imports (PCI)) and decomposing it into three components: a … presented for 3 of the 10 pollutants in the data set indicate a significant pollution haven effect and highlight the role of …

Salinity in surface waters is on the rise throughout much of the world. Many factors contribute to this change …

a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …

agriculture and the process of development. Unfortunately, cross-country data sets on agricultural fixed capital are rare. Using a … fixed capital in agriculture, based on national accounts data. The fixed capital measure differs remarkably from the Food … and Agriculture Organization's data series on tractors, which has been widely utilized as a proxy for agricultural fixed …