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Asia's sectoral transformation, evolving diets, and the consequences for climate change
Larson, Donald Frederick - 2024
the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture … combat climate change. This paper looks at how past technology choices opened a pathway to prosperity in Asia that now …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515844
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Large scale societal transitions in the past
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Hausknost, Daniel - 2013
WP 201 takes a historical perspective in analysing past systemic social-ecological transition processes. The research paper (MS 27) emerging from task 201.2 explores two major energy transitions of the past: the transition to the use of fossil fuels (e.g. starting with coal in the UK in the 17th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430793
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Promoting Poles of Clean Growth to Foster the Transition to a More Sustainable Economy
Hoffmann, Ulrich - 2015
For effective mitigation of the current severe economic crisis, developing countries can seize real opportunities for cleaner growth, including low-carbon growth. While complex and long, the process of greening economies can and should be gradually piloted towards selected “poles of clean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039093
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Natural Resources, Governance, and Economic Growth in Africa
Park, Bokyeong - 2017
Development economists have found evidence that an abundance in natural resources hinders economic growth, contrary to conventional expectations. This finding is called the resource curse hypothesis. The major questions this paper addresses are: does the resource curse hypothesis apply to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942596
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Direct Distribution of Rents and the Resource Curse in Iran : A Micro-Econometric Analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2014
Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and subsequent taxation in Iran. We use rich micro survey data covering more than 36,000 Iranian households in 2009. Our micro-simulations show that the direct distribution of resource...
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Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan African Countries? : Evidence from a Panel of Countries
Lee, Munseob - 2015
We examine the impact of resource windfall on the standard of living both in the short-run and long-run, using a sample of 130 countries, 1963-2007. Then, we systematically investigate the effect of resource windfall on welfare in three different groups of countries: We find that in the...
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Natural resource rents, autocracy and economic freedom
Endrikat, Morten - 2021
This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the effect of natural resource rents on the process of economic liberalization and a potential moderating effect of the level of democracy. A simple political-economic model is developed in which the government in an autocratic country faces...
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Sacrificing Cereals for Crude : Has Oil Discovery Slowed Agriculture Growth in Ghana?
Ackah, Ishmael - 2016
This study applies the quadratic hill climbing model, stepwise regression, and a dynamic generalized method of moments to investigate the relationship between oil rents and agriculture growth in Ghana. Agriculture, once considered the backbone of Ghana's economy recorded a reduction of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997054
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An Analysis of the Relevance of the Resource Curse to Australia, and Policy Implications
Bucifal, Stanislav; George, Terry; Ahmed, Nur - 2009
This paper and associated presentation explores the economic phenomenon of the so called ‘resource curse’. We begin by defining the phrase and outlining the main individual ‘curses’ and their causes to give the reader a broad understanding of what is meant by the phrase. This is followed...
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Natural Resources : Are They Really a Curse?
Cerny, Alexandr; Filer, Randall K. - 2013
The curse of natural resources detected in numerous cross-country growth regressions is questioned. Although natural resource dependence is associated with slow economic growth, there is no evidence that natural resource abundance per se is negatively related to growth. Thus, the supposed link...
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