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China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental … pressures. Strong efforts by the government have moderated emissions of some types of air and water pollution from high levels … other costs and reduce well-being. The 12th Five Year Plan aims at further reducing pollution and at other environmental …
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It is to be expected that rational peole defend themselves against pollution externalities, at the very least through …
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It is to be expected that rational peole defend themselves against pollution externalities, at the very least through …
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The Kyoto Protocol of December 1997 allows emission trade between countries that have committed themselves to an emission ceiling. This paper considers two schemes of emission trading: trade between goverments and trade between emision sources. The two schemes are analyzed and the strengths and...
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Nonpayment for public utilities is an important constraint to expanding service access in developing countries. As a potential policy response, this study implements and evaluates a randomized water education campaign in a low income peri-urban area in South Africa. We estimate substantial...
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simulation, the welfare effect of deregulation, taking into account the pollution costs which will arise through increased …
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, global Pigouvian taxation would make pollution-intensive countries worse-off. This paper uses the "strong version" of the …
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This is one of a series of three Technical Reports which document an integrated agro-ecological economic modelling system that can be used to simultaneously assess the economic and the greenhouse gas emission impacts of agricultural policies at regional and national levels. The model provides a...
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This paper examines the Regional Clean Air Incentives MArket (RECLAIM) which was launched in Los Angeles in January 1994. RECLAIM is an emissions trading program which is expected to decrease hazardous pollutants from stationary sources in the South Coast Basin. I analyze the transactions data...
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The possibility of using revenues from environmental taxes to reduce other distortions in the tax system has been much discussed recently. This paper reviews the current debate and presents empirical evidence to suggest that the double dividend approach to CO2 emissions control in Canada can...
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