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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 …
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The fallout of nitrogen pollution is considered one of the largest global externalities facing the world, impacting air …, Vietnam, and 33 African countries to analyze the causal links between pollution exposure experienced during the very earliest … stages of life and later-life health. The results show that pollution exposure experienced in the critical years of …
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This paper explores the links between city competitiveness and air pollution and the business environment. Because … increasing pollution levels and the effects of agglomeration economies. The analysis finds two interesting results. First, the … negative association between air pollution and firm performance can be seen at lower than expected levels of pollution. Second …
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shows how this approach affects carbon footprint calculations by applying it to World Bank staff travel for calendar year …
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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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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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Using a new, large data set on quarterly reserve requirements for the period 1970-2011, this paper provides new evidence on the use of reserve requirements as a countercyclical macroprudential tool in developing countries. The appeal of reserve requirements lies in the pro-cyclical behavior of...
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This paper discusses the scope for market mechanisms, already established for greenhouse gas mitigation in Annex 1 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, for implementing "net mitigation," defined here as mitigation beyond Annex 1 countries' formal mitigation requirements under the Kyoto...
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contributed to limit global carbon dioxide emissions at the current level; otherwise, the world's current carbon dioxide emissions …
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Previous studies have established a negative relationship between total government spending and entrepreneurship activity. However, the relationship between the composition of government spending and entrepreneurial activity has been woefully under-researched. This paper fills this gap in the...
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