This paper examines the impact of trade and political institutions on environmental quality in Africa and explores … whether political institutions matter to the trade-environment relationship. We use data from a large group of African …. The results from GMM-SYS estimates suggest that political institutions influence the relationship between trade and …

’s forests. This report examines the available evidence on the impacts of the crisis on deforestation and land use in the … sectors. (c) The primary mechanism through which deforestation trends are likely to have been affected is through changes in … source of concern. (d) There is little evidence to support the more alarmist fears of vastly accelerated deforestation …

This paper overviews and analyzes Egypt's service sector, its commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in …

number of firm characteristics are found to imply significantly different financing constraints: government ownership, trade …

the conception of democracy underlying a prominent Islamic political model is procedural. We distinguish proceduralism … from a liberal conception of democracy. Then, we explain how bringing together Islamic political theory and democracy … alters the meaning of the latter. In other words, we show that democracy within Islam often means democracy within Islamic …