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From Growth to Green Growth -- a Framework
Hallegatte, S. - 2017
Green growth is about making growth processes resource-efficient, cleaner and more resilient without necessarily slowing them. This paper aims at clarifying these concepts in an analytical framework and at proposing foundations for green growth. The green growth approach proposed here is based...
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Stakeholder Dialogue as an Institutional Strategy for Sustainable Development in China : The Case of Community Environmental Roundtables
Wang, Hua - 2017
, has received little attention from researchers and practitioners in developing countries such as China, even though the … stakeholder dialogue as an institutional tool for promoting sustainable development in China, and then presents a pilot program of … stakeholder dialogue recently developed in China -- the community environmental roundtables. Community leaders organize roundtable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975838
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Sustainable and Smart Cities
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017
game' for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first …
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Tools for Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Green Growth : The U.S. And Mexico
Harrington, Winston - 2017
This paper examines the processes used in the United States and Mexico to assess the economic costs and benefits of environmental improvement, the kinds of information obtained from these procedures, and the additional knowledge that is needed about both elements to improve understanding of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974873
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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth
Popp, David - 2017
By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974878
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Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality : An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data
He, Jie - 2017
-level panel dataset obtained from China. The results show that economic structure, development strategy and environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975841
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Energy and Emissions : Local and Global Effects of the Rise of China and India
Shalizi, Zmarak - 2016
capacity in OPEC, refining bottlenecks, and geopolitical uncertainties rather than growing incremental use of oil by China and … 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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Transport Policies and Development
Berg, Claudia N. - 2018
, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. The findings are summarized and methodologies are critically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937140
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New Evidence on the Cyclicality of Fiscal Policy
Carneiro, Francisco - 2017
This paper presents new evidence on the patterns of cyclicality in the fiscal policy stance of developing and industrialized countries over a period of more than three decades covering 180 countries during 1980?2012. First, the paper considers issues of robustness in the choice of the proxy for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971636
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Ethiopia?S Growth Acceleration and How to Sustain It?Insights from a Cross-Country Regression Model
Moller, Lars Christian - 2017
Ethiopia has experienced a growth acceleration over the past decade on the back of an economic strategy emphasizing public infrastructure investment and supported by heterodox macro-financial policies. To analyze the country?s growth performance during 2000?13, the paper employs a neoclassical...
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