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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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women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … with a higher degree of democracy. These findings are robust to the choice of control variables and the method of …
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This study focuses primarily on trade preferences offered by the European Union (EU) and in particular on the … gravity model, an estimation of the influence of the EBA preferences on exports from the ACP LDCs to the EU-15 is presented …. The model is applied to the time period 1995 to 2005 for the ACP countries' exports to the EU-15 and estimated with the …
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Today it is widely acknowledged that increasing the gender sensitivity of development aid increases its effectiveness. This report evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments, pointing out structural, financial and policy gaps that...
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This paper examines several indicators of effective development aid, focusing on the contributions of major bilateral donors. The empirical analyses of selectivity for effective aid delivery revealed that, taking a long-term and regional perspective, some major donors including Japan have been...
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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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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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The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for …
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