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This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new … deforestation, pollution, and carbon intensities. Per capita emissions follow a $J$-curve. Specifically, poverty reduction occurs …
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the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower … conflict. The key idea is that expressively motivated group members may create incentives for instrumentally motivated group … leaders such that it leads them to choose conflict rather than compromise. Nonetheless, it is not argued that such a peace is …
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No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This … reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict justice efforts (trials, purges, reparation to victims, and truth … commissions) as well as processes associated with abstaining from post-conflict justice (amnesty and exile). It investigates the …
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Interests in obtaining carbon offsets in host countries for Clean Development Mechanism projects may serve as an obstacle to implementing more stringent general environmental policies in the same countries. A relatively lax environmental policy, whereby carbon emissions remain high, can be...
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. The analysis assumes that the world can be split into two regions, with two fuels that both lead to carbon emissions …
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endowments and environmental policies have only marginally affected the pollution content of world trade during the 1986 …This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the … pollution content of trade (measured by the pollution content of imports, PCI) and decomposing it into three components - a deep …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the … pollution content of trade (measured by the polluction content of imports (PCI)) and decomposing it into three components: a … presented for 3 of the 10 pollutants in the data set indicate a significant pollution haven effect and highlight the role of …
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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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This paper analyzes environmental reliance, poverty, and climate vulnerability among more than 7,300 households in forest adjacent communities in 24 developing countries. The data are from the detailed, quarterly income recording done by the Poverty Environment Network project. Observed income...
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currently announced by more than 40 countries around the world are implemented by 2020 using crop feedstocks, and if both …
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