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particular generate in two important sectors?transport and agriculture?in two countries in the Middle East and North Africa, the … Arab Republic of Egypt (transport) and the Republic of Yemen (agriculture). The focus is mainly on the costs associated … with congestion and pollution, as well as the impact of underpriced energy for depletion of scarce water resources …
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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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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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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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Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is …
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closer spatial proximity to one of India's largest cities. Plants in the organized sector utilizing a greater variety of …
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This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of … transformation currently underway in rural India …
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Millions of villagers in Bangladesh are exposed to arsenic by drinking contaminated water from private wells. Testing for arsenic can encourage switching from unsafe wells to safer sources. This study describes results from a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted in 112 villages in...
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The fallout of nitrogen pollution is considered one of the largest global externalities facing the world, impacting air …, water, soil, and human health. This paper combines data from the Demographic and Health Survey data set across India …, Vietnam, and 33 African countries to analyze the causal links between pollution exposure experienced during the very earliest …
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China's Belt and Road Initiative aims to improve connectivity between China and more than 70 countries through infrastructure investment and regional cooperation. The initiative has the potential to accelerate significantly the rate of economic integration and development in the region, as trade...
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