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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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Green Prices
Tran, Ngoc Bich - 2017
"Getting the prices right" is a good starting point but is not sufficient for achieving environmentally efficient outcomes. Other policy interventions are often necessary to complement pricing policies. Moreover, when pricing is not at all feasible, regulatory and command-and-control policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975126
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Review of Environmental, Economic and Policy Aspects of Biofuels
Rajagopal, Deepak - 2016
The world is witnessing a sudden growth in production of biofuels, especially those suited for replacing oil like ethanol and biodiesel. This paper synthesizes what the environmental, economic, and policy literature predicts about the possible effects of these types of biofuels. Another...
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Technology Strategies for Low-Carbon Economic Growth : A General Equilibrium Assessment
Sue Wing, Ian - 2017
This paper investigates the potential for developing countries to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions without slowing their expected economic growth. A theoretical frame- work is developed that unifies bottom-up marginal abatement cost curves and partial equilibrium techno-economic simulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968719
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Business Regulations and Growth
Divanbeigi, Raian - 2017
Over the past decade, there has been increased interest in improving business regulations, in part because of the … the link between business regulations, firm creation, and growth. It is found that an improvement of 10 points in the … overall measure of business regulations is linked to an increase of around 0.5 new businesses per 1,000 adults. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971629
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The Doing Business Indicators, Economic Growth and Regulatory Reform
Hanusch, Marek - 2017
Improving the investment climate is among the top priorities in development. The World Bank Group's Doing Business reports have become an important guide and benchmark to inform regulatory reforms aimed at unleashing the potential of the private sector. This paper discusses the potential role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975046
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If it Pays, it Stays : Can Agribusiness Internalize the Benefits of Malaria Control?
Sedlmayr, Richard - 2017
Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its costs? The randomized allocation of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597 smallholder cotton farming households in 1,507 clusters helps evaluate this in the context...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968645
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Financial Development and Survival of African Agri-Food Exports
Jaud, Melise - 2017
This paper investigates the link between export survival of agri-food products and financial development. It tests the hypothesis that financial development differentially affects the survival of exports across products based on their need of external finance. The authors test whether exports of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976026
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Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity
Divanbeigi, Raian - 2017
determinants of agricultural development by investigating the role played by laws and regulations. First, the paper proposes new … productivity is on average higher where transaction costs imposed by regulations are lower and where countries adhere to more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947371
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Optimal Locational Choice for Agrobusinesses in Madagascar : An Application of Spatial Autoregressive Tobit Regression
Iimi, Atsushi - 2018
The traditional location theory predicts that firms' locational choice is independent of the output demand. However, firms are often concentrated in large markets. In Africa, agrobusinesses are expected to play an important role to facilitate agricultural growth but are hardly available in rural...
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