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An Analysis of Physical and Monetary Losses of Environmental Health and Natural Resources in India
Mani, Muthukumara - 2017
This study provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … damage categories: (i) urban air pollution; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor sanitation, and hygiene; and (iii) indoor air … pollution. It also provides estimates based on three natural resource damage categories: (i) agricultural damage from soil …
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Energy and Emissions : Local and Global Effects of the Rise of China and India
Shalizi, Zmarak - 2016
India.Part 2 compares two business as usual scenarios with a set of alternate scenarios based on policy interventions on the … results suggest that energy externalities are likely to worsen significantly if there is no shift in China's and India …'s energy strategies. High energy demand from China and India could constrain some developing countries' growth through higher …
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The Impact of Policies to Control Motor Vehicle Emissions in Mumbai, India
Takeuchi, Akie - 2016
required in Delhi, which would necessitate an increase in bus fares to cover the cost of pollution controls. The authors model …
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Cooperative Behavior and Common Pool Resources : Experimental Evidence from Community Forest User Groups in Nepal
Bluffstone, Randall A. - 2017
This paper examines whether cooperative behavior by respondents measured as contributions in a one-shot public goods game correlates with reported pro-forest collective action behaviors. All the outcomes analyzed are costly in terms of time, land, or money. The study finds significant evidence...
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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 Resources, Institutions, and Economic Growth : The Case of Nigeria
Raggl, Anna Katharina - 2017
Using growth regressions with panel data, this study identifies the determinants of economic growth, highlighting in particular the role of natural resources and institutional quality. The overarching aim of this exercise is to learn about the drivers of growth in Nigeria, and to predict growth...
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Non-Renewable Resources, Fiscal Rules, and Human Capital
Levine, Paul - 2019
This paper develops a multi-sector, small open economy Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model, which includes the accumulation of human capital, built via public expenditures in education and health. Four possible fiscal rules are examined for total public investment in infrastructure,...
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Natural Resources and Total Factor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries : Testing a New Methodology
Hamilton, Kirk - 2019
Estimates of total factor productivity growth, a measure of increases in the efficiency of production, have traditionally been based on a two-factor model of labor and fixed capital. Because profits are measured residually in the System of National Accounts, they implicitly include rents on...
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Resource Rents, Coercion, and Local Development : Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa
Bastos, Paulo - 2018
This paper examines how the dismantling of coercive institutions associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 affected the distribution of rents from natural resource exports. It identifies the interplay between coercive institutions and natural resource rents as an important...
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Do Resource-Rich Countries Suffer from a Lack of Fiscal Discipline?
Bleaney, Michael - 2017
Fiscal indicators for resource-rich and resource-poor low- and middle-income countries are compared using annual data from 1996 to 2012. Resource richness is defined by export composition: fuel greater than a 25 percent share and/or ores and metals greater than a 10 percent share. Fuel exporters...
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