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The Use of Financial Incentives to Prevent Undesirable Behaviors

de Walque, Damien - 2018

Behaviors that are putting people's health and well-being at risk are widespread in the developing world and some of them, like smoking and unhealthy diets, are on the rise. Some of these behaviors can be prohibited or prevented by taxation. But financial incentives such as conditional cash...

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The Economic Viability of Jatropha Biodiesel in Nepal

Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017

Nepal depends entirely on imports for meeting its demand for petroleum products, which account for the largest share in total import volume. Diesel is the main petroleum product consumed in the country and accounts for 38 percent of the total national CO2 emissions from fuel consumption. There...

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What is the Social Value of Second-Generation Biofuels?

Hertel, Thomas W. - 2017

What is second-generation biofuel technology worth to global society? A dynamic, computable partial equilibrium model (called FABLE) is used to assess changes in global land use for crops, livestock, biofuels, forestry, and environmental services, as well as greenhouse gas emissions, with and...

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Confronting the Food-Energy-Environment Trilemma : Global Land Use in the Long Run

Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2017

Economic, agronomic, and biophysical drivers affect global land use, so all three influences need to be considered in evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework applied over the course of the coming century shows...

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An Economic Model of Brazil's Ethanol-Sugar Markets and Impacts of Fuel Policies

de Gorter, Harry - 2017

The lack of growth in the Brazilian sugarcane-ethanol complex since the 2008 financial crisis has been blamed on … ethanol. This paper develops an empirical model of the Brazilian fuel-ethanol-sugar complex to analyze the impacts of these … policies. Unlike biofuel mandates and tax exemptions elsewhere, Brazil's fuel-ethanol-sugar markets and fuel policies are …

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Macroeconomic and Distributional Impacts of Jatropha-Based Biodiesel in Mali

Boccanfuso, Dorothée - 2017

Mali, a landlocked West African nation at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, has introduced a program to produce biodiesel using jatropha curcas, a non-edible shrub widely available throughout the country by farmers for generations as a living fence for their gardens. The aim of the program...

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Are Biofuels Economically Competitive with Their Petroleum Counterparts?Production Cost Analysis for Zambia

Sinkala, Thomson - 2017

. This study aims to contribute in filling this gap. It finds that depending on feedstock type, costs of ethanol production …

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Should Zambia Produce Biodiesel from Soybeans? Some Insights from an Empirical Analysis

de Gorter, Harry - 2017

Facing a huge fiscal burden due to imports of entire petroleum despite the availability of a surplus of agricultural land to produce biofuels, Zambia, a country in Sub-Saharan Africa, has recently introduced a biofuel mandate. But, a number of questions, particularly those related to the...

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The Effect of Biodiesel Policies on World Oilseed Markets and Developing Countries

de Gorter, Harry - 2017

Using an empirical model, this study provides some insights into the functioning of the oilseed-biodiesel-diesel market complex in a large country that determines the biodiesel price, reflecting market equilibrium changes resulting from volatility in the crude oil price. Oilseed crushing...

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Development of Biofuels in China : Technologies, Economics and Policies

Shiyan, Chang - 2017

surpassed except for non-grain fuel ethanol; however, there is debate on whether and how the country will be able to meet the … study shows that China can potentially satisfy its non-grain fuel ethanol target by 2020 from the technology perspective …

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