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The purpose of this paper is first to discuss the paradox that freight transport, which so clearly is an important prerequisite for the processes of regional development and economic international-isation and globalisation, since the 1970s has almost vanished from mainstream economic geo-graphy...
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, and experience both industrial pollution and natural resource degradation. We present a model that incorporates these …
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the environment. It looks at what has happened to the share of manufacturing industries by pollution classification over … happens to pollution intensity with and without trade reforms. The results indicate some positive impact of trade reforms on …
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pollution in developing countries. This paper argues that trade liberalization does not necessarily result in more pollution … policy will affect water pollution and groundwater depletion. Results of a partial equilibrium model, which relates changes … linked to firm level data for Metro Manila and Metro Cebu on water pollution, water use intensities and source of water. …
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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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constraints to investment, economic development, and redistribution, i.e. on domestic savings, export performance, and fiscal …
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This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99-100), the upper middle class (P90-99), and the rest of the population (P0-90). The results show that...
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Based on a statistical procedure that combines household survey data with population census data, this paper presents estimates of inequality for three developing countries at a level of disaggregation far below that allowed by household surveys alone. We show that while the share of...
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instability that led to the loss of AGOA status at the end of 2009. This paper assesses the development of Madagascar's export …Over the past decade, several Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have developed or expanded export-oriented apparel … African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Madagascar is different to the other main SSA low-income country (LIC) apparel …
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major cyclone (Gafilo) hit Madagascar in March 2004. Relief was provided by the Government of Madagascar as well as local …
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