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Satisfaction with democracy and the environment in Western Europe : a panel analysis

Wagner, Alexander F.; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for … higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3 …

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The political economy of China's aid policy in Africa

Pehnelt, Gernot - 2007

In recent years, China has become a major power on the African continent, not only with respect to trade and investment, but also as a donor of development aid. Although there is no accurate measure of the exact size of China's aid program, since China rather underestimates the volume in...

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Optimal Tourism Development

Campos-Soria, Juan A. (contributor) - 2020

The early days of tourism development had a näive vision of tourism's impacts on society in terms of economic, social, and environmental benefits. Time has passed, and we have learnt lessons regarding the success and failure of tourism development. Mass tourism development has pros and cons...

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As East You Go, the More They Grow: Transition Economies in a New Setting

Gligorov, Vladimir; Pöschl, Josef; Richter, Sandor - 2004

unsound; the business infrastructure is not fully developed in terms of legislation, public administration and the judiciary …This wiiw report reviews the economic situation in the new EU member states, in the countries of Southeast Europe, in … output, construction, foreign trade and quarterly GDP figures confirm this development. The economic recovery in the 'old EU …

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Ecology and economic policy

Simonis, Udo E. - In: IFDA dossier (1989) 70, pp. 59-64

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Japanese environmental policy in an international perspective: lessons for a preventive approach

Weidner, Helmut - In: Environmental policy in Japan, (pp. 479-552). 1989

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Ecosystem valuation: Some principles and a partial application

Morse-Jones, Sian; Turner, R. Kerry; Fisher, Brendan; … - 2010

Understanding the economic value of nature and the services it provides to humanity has become increasingly important for local, national and global policy and decision making. However, problems arise in that it is difficult to obtain meaningful values for goods and services that ecosystems...

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Does corruption matter for the environment? Panel evidence from China

Liao, Xianchun; Dogan, Eyup; Baek, Jungho - 2016

This paper examines the income-energy-SO2 emissions nexus by taking a corruption variable into account. To that end, the panel cointegration methods are applied to 29 Chinese provinces over 1999-2012. The authors' empirical evidence shows that an increase in the number of anticorruption cases...

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Hope for the environment: Free enterprise and other economic regimes

Baumol, William Jack - 1998

Economists that was held in Venice on June 25-27, 1998. It analyses the situation of the environment under different economic … long run for the environment. This hope lies in the abundance and growth, such as the world has never known, produced by …, they begin to think about the environment. This has allowed concern about the environment to become a powerful political …

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Notes on the State of Capital

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2010

These notes are transcribed from a commentary on a paper by Sean Starrs, titled 'State and Capital: False Dichotomy But Still Inter-Related'. Both the paper and the commentary were presented as part of an integrated panel series on 'Capital as Power', held at the 36th Annual Conference of the...

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