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Skeptics point out, with some justification, that the nuclear industry's prospects were dimmed by escalating costs long before Fukushima. If history is any guide, one direct consequence of the calamity in Japan will be more stringent safety requirements and regulatory delays that will inevitably...
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economies: Brazil, China, and India. The analysis focuses on the countries' experience in various dimensions, including price …
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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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increases over the next three decades will affect household-level welfare in India. The authors predict a substantial fall in … the non-poor, since they own the lion's share of agricultural land. The results suggest that poverty in India will be …
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China, the United States, and India, decided on a more gradual phasing out extending beyond 2030. This paper estimates the … welfare loss of about 1.5 percent. Some of the major emitters, such as China and India, will experience minimal impacts to …
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India and the staggered rollout of a rural livelihoods intervention. Comparisons from household surveys across communities …
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. Three projects are considered - in India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The results are still tentative in terms of both …
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This paper contributes to understanding the physical and economic effects of salinity diffusion and planning for appropriate adaptation for managing the Sundarbans in a changing climate, with a focus on the West Bengal portion of the tidal-wetland forest delta. A five-step analysis, using...
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Morocco has set an ambitious target of supplying 42 percent of electricity through renewable sources, 14 percent each through hydro, wind, and solar, by 2020. To analyze the economic and environmental implications of implementing this target, this study uses a dynamic computable general...
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/industry-based economies (United States, Japan, Germany, South Korea, India, and Malaysia) and thus complement the standard literature …
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