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International Trade and Green Growth
Copeland, Brian R. - 2017
production-generated pollution, there is evidence that stringent environmental policy reduces some indicators of competitiveness … international competitiveness when pollution is generated by consumption. And where depletion of natural capital is a threat …
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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the Gtap9 Database
Roson, Roberto - 2017
Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...
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Measuring the Impacts of Global Trade Reform with Optimal Aggregators of Distortions
Laborde, David - 2017
, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975999
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Trade and Regional Inequality
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2017
world differently. Using a combination of static and dynamic panel data analysis, we find that while increases in trade per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976486
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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors
Havlík, Petr - 2017
a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970677
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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
consumption, and supported by a conducive external environment. Macroeconomic challenges arising from declining private credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971637
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On the Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Islamic Finance
Ahmed, Habib - 2017
Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally … mobilized if the world is to succeed in meeting its targets. Thus, the potential for Islamic finance to play a role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971752
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Is Green Growth Good for the Poor?
Dercon, Stefan - 2017
The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974894
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Toward a Sustainable Global Energy Supply Infrastructure : Net Energy Balance and Density Considerations
Kessides, Ioannis - 2017
This paper complements previous work on the economics of different energy resources by examining the growth potential of alternative electricity supply infrastructures as constrained by innate physical limits. Coal-fired generation meets the criteria of longevity (abundance of energy source) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976199