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Can Central Africa escape the curse of primary commodities?
Carmignani, Fabrizio; Avom, Desire - 2010
We study the effect of primary commodities on development indicators in a sample of 86 countries over the period 1965-2005. To this purpose we employ a system of equations. We use interactive terms to estimate separate slope coefficients for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, Central African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448468
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Empirical evidence on financial spillovers and contagion to international stock markets
Serwa, Dobromil - 2005
In this thesis different definitions of financial contagion are explored. These definitions are applied to test for evidence of contagion on a number of stock markets and during several turbulent periods. First, we investigate the question whether emerging stock markets are more or less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460744
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Special Issue On Estimation Of Baselines And Leakage In CarbonMitigation Forestry Projects
Sathaye, Jayant A.; Andrasko, Kenneth - 2009
estimation of leakage inprojects in developing Asia and Latin America. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435540
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Outlook and challenges to coal in Asia: 1994--2015
Johnson, C.J.; Li, B. - 2009
The two key threats to coal`s long term dominance in Asia are: (1) its uneven distribution of reserves and lack of … deterioration of the environment in Asia for another one to two decades. China will remain the largest polluter in Asia, but it …`s believed it will become Asia`s largest user of emissions control technology by 2015. The authors have subjectively weighed the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435575
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International oil and gas exploration and development: 1991
2008
This report starts where the previous quarterly publication ended. This first publication of a new annual series contains most of the same data as the quarterly report, plus some new material, through 1991. It also presents historical data covering a longer period of time than the previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435856
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Sensitivity analysis of world oil prices. Analysis report AR/IA/79-47
Rodekohr, M.; Cato, D. - 2008
An analysis of the impact of the political disruption in Iran on the world oil market is presented. During the first quarter of 1979, this disruption caused a loss of approximately 5 million barrels per day (MMBD) of oil production available for export from Iran to the rest of the world. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435871
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A prefeasibility study of energy resource options in Hainan, China
Hill, L.J.; Russell, M.; Barron, W.F.; LaRocco, P.; Shen, Z. - 2008
This study identifies a strategy that (1) provides future energy services for Hainan in the least environmentally degrading way, (2) eliminates the need to build significant amounts of new fossil-fueled, electric generating capacity, saving capital to invest in other development projects, (3)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435877
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Conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps in India and Brazil
Gadgil, A.; Martino Jannuzzi, G. de - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP - 2008
We evaluate the conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for managing the rapidly increasing electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved energy using 16 W CFLs is 4 and 6 times less than the long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436308
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International physical protection self-assessment tool for chemical facilities.
Tewell, Craig R.; Burdick, Brent A.; Stiles, Linda L.; … - 2010
team proposed a comprehensive evaluation of safety and security regulations in the target geographical area, Southeast Asia …
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