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The impact of trade and economic growth on the environment: revisiting the cross-country evidence
Abdulai, Awudu; Ramcke, Linda - 2009
degradation can be entirely confirmed. If anything, there is modest support for the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH). In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263550
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The Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis in Developed Countries and Emerging Market Economies: Different Outcomes Explained
García Solanes, José; Torrejón-Flores, Fernando - 2008
This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen OECD countries and sixteen Latin American economies. Applying panel cointegration and bootstrapping techniques that solve for cross-sectional dependence problems in the data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295271
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The Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis in Developed Countries and Emerging Market Economies: Different Outcomes Explained
García Solanes, José; Torrejón-Flores, Fernando - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-2, pp. 1-24
This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson effects in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen OECD countries and sixteen Latin American economies. The USA is taken as a benchmark. Applying recent panel cointegration and bootstrapping techniques that solve for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298622
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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries
Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J.; Tausch, Arno - 2007
Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and...
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Country Case Study: Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in the Philippines. European Commission's SWITCH-Asia PROGRAMME
Sta. Romana, Leonardo L. - In: Sustainable Asia: Supporting the Transition to …, (pp. 239-266). 2015
This chapter examines the patterns of consumption and production in the Philippines and analyses their impact on the …" that the Philippines stands to gain from any action to "switch" consumption and production to more sustainable patterns. …
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How to promote development-friendly FDI: an agenda for policymakers in developing and transition countries
Nunnenkamp, Peter - In: Rozwój regionalny i globalny we współczesnej …, (pp. 247-254). 2005
For FDI to help stimulate economic growth and alleviate poverty in developing countries, two conditions have to be met. The first requirement is to improve developing countries' attractiveness to foreign investors. Second, the host-country environment in which foreign investors operate must be...
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Dynamics of China's Regional Development and Pollution
de Groot, Henri L.F.M.; Withagen, Cees A.; Minliang, Zhou - 2001
covering the period 1982-1997. The types of pollution included in the studyare wastewater, waste gas and solid waste. We … consider the development of the sources ofpollution in a pooled cross-section analysis considering the pollution in absolute … emissions tends to decelerate, but accelerates again at high levels of GDP per capita.Water pollution decreases with per capita …
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Notes on Habit Formation and Socially Optimal Growth
Valente, Simone - 2006
The interaction between habit formation and pollution-type ex- ternalities modifies the social optimum through discount … effects and elasticity effects. If the substitution elasticity does not exceed unity, both effects reduce optimal consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753113
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Trade reforms, deforestation and industrial pollution in developing countries: One size does not fit all
Coxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, Sisira - 2005
, and experience both industrial pollution and natural resource degradation. We present a model that incorporates these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332378
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Sustainability and the problem of consumption
Witt, Ulrich - 2011
Strong growth in disposable income has inflated consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. In this … individual welfare would be directly affected by policy measures designed to make consumption sustainable. Such policy measures … pay attention to both direct and indirect welfare effects. As a concrete proposal a redesign of consumption taxes is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286752