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Quantifying sustainability: A new approach and world ranking
Carraro, Carlo; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2012
evolution of all indicators over time throughout the world, and (ii) the aggregation methodology to reconcile them in one … current sustainability at world level differs from what the traditional measure of well-being, the GDP, depicts, highlighting … the trade-offs among different components of sustainability. Moreover, in the next decade a slight decrease in world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294272
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Interactions between Climate and Trade Policies: A Survey
Galeotti, Marzio; Kemfert, Claudia - 2004
Economic globalization affects the environment and sustainable development in several ways and through various channels. The purpose of this paper is to review the key links between globalization and the environment. The paper intends to consider the major issues in multilateral economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324958
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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325125
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The impact of trade and economic growth on the environment: revisiting the cross-country evidence
Abdulai, Awudu; Ramcke, Linda - 2009
This paper explores the interrelations between economic growth, international trade and environmental degradation both theoretically and empirically. Panel data from developed and developing countries for the period of 1980 to 2003 is used and previous critique, especially on the econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263550
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Natural resources: Curse or blessing?
van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2010
Are natural resources a 'curse' or a 'blessing'? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270490
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The Stability of the Adjusted and Unadjusted Environmental Kuznets Curve
Becchetti, Leonardo; Auci, Sabrina - 2005
In our paper, we test the stability of the unadjusted and adjusted Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Our results provide evidence in favour of the significance of the adjusted EKC hypothesis in which the impact of per capita GDP on the intensity of CO2 emissions is evaluated conditionally to...
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Should We Discount the Far-Distant Future at Its Lowest Possible Rate?
Gollier, Christian - 2009
In this paper, we elaborate on an idea initially developed by Weitzman (1998) that justifies taking the lowest possible discount rate for far-distant future cash flows. His argument relies on the arbitrary assumption that when the future rate of return of capital (RRC) is uncertain, one should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298588
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Avoiding Extinction: Equal Treatment of the Present and the Future
Chichilnisky, Graciela - 2009
Equal treatment for the present and the future was required in two axioms for sustainable development introduced by the author. This article shows that the two axioms are equivalent to awareness of physical limits in the long run future. We prove that two optimization problems are equivalent :...
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Should we Discount the Far-Distant Future at its Lowest Possible Rate?
Gollier, Christian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-25, pp. 1-14
In this paper, we elaborate on an idea initially developed by Weitzman (1998) that justifies taking the lowest possible discount rate for far-distant future cash flows. His argument relies on the arbitrary assumption that when the future rate of return of capital (RRC) is uncertain, one should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298643
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Avoiding extinction: equal treatment of the present and the future
Chichilnisky, Graciela - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-32, pp. 1-25
Equal treatment for the present and the future was required in two axioms introduced in the articles by Chichilnisky of the years 1996 and 1997. These articles provide a characterization of the decision criterion that satisfies the axioms and shows that the two axioms are equivalent to physical...
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