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Do Philippine households lead a carbon intensive lifestyle?
Seriño, Moises Neil V. - 2014
This paper estimates carbon emission from household consumption and investigates its determinants. We derive total … household carbon emission by using the mechanism of input-output analysis combine with household expenditure for 2005 and 2006 … goods are the least carbon intensive. After controlling for household characteristics, the analyses reveal that income has a …
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Who emits CO2? Landscape of ecological inequalities in France from a critical perspective
Pottier, Antonin; Combet, Emmanuel; Cayla, Jean-Michel; … - 2021
in a detailed and critical manner the methodological conventions that are used to compute “household emissions … estimate the distribution of household carbon footprints based on data from the 2011 French Household Budget Survey. Household … household CO2 emissions linked to housing and transport energy. For transport, emissions are proportional to the distance …
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Effects of tourism upon the economy of small and medium-sized European cities: Cultural tourists and 'the others'
Del Corpo, Barbara; Gasparino, Ugo; Bellini, Elena; … - 2008
The paper presents the results of the application of an Input-Output-based approach for the estimation of direct, indirect and induced effects of tourist spending on local economies, in a static partial equilibrium setting. The methodology has been successfully applied in three case studies...
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Tracing Brazilian regions? CO2 emissions in domestic and global trade
Imori, Denise; Guilhoto, Joaquim - 2015
The current Brazilian position on climate change has been formalized with the law of National Climate Change Policy (PNMC, in Portuguese), established in December 2009, which provides a legal framework for national actions aimed at mitigation and adaptation. Within PNMC, the country has defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400490
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Analysis of convergence process of Polish household food expenditures
Muller-Fraczek, Iwona; Muszynska, Joanna; Pietrzak, … - 2013
ß-convergence in the share of household expenditure on food in total expenditures. The research has allowed the … convergence, the article indicates household disposable income as a strong determinant of social convergence process in Poland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232227
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Towards a national indicator for urban green space provision and environmental inequalities in Germany: Method and findings
Wüstemann, Henry; Kalisch, Dennis - 2016
European countries - a national indicator measuring the provision of urban green on household and individual level is missing … household and individual level. We investigate the provision of urban green by merging geo-coded household data from the German … the Euclidean distance between the household and the nearest green-site in meters. Secondly, we calculate the coverage of …
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Verteilung des Immobilienvermögens in Deutschland
Clamor, Tim; Henger, Ralph - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 40 (2013) 1, pp. 69-82
Das private Immobilienvermögen in Deutschland verdoppelte sich in den vergangenen 20 Jahren auf 6 Billionen Euro. Mit gut der Hälfte am Privatvermögen stellt es weiterhin die wichtigste Anlageklasse dar. Das Immobilienvermögen ist analog zu anderen Vermögenspositionen ungleich zwischen...
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Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of e-commerce users in Indonesia
Hasyyati, Atika Nashirah - 2017
Nowadays, it is very important to capture the data relating to the e-commerce phenomenon. It is related to the use of information and communication technology (ICT), not only in the ICT sector, but in all sectors. ICT can accelerate the development of economies, which, in turn, impacts social...
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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - 2000
We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other...
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Poverty trends in Pakistan
Hina, Nazli; Whitney, Edward; Mahrt, Kristi - 2015
The official estimates of poverty in Pakistan have shown a remarkable and consistent decline in the poverty headcount during the previous decade. This paper examines trends in poverty between 2001 and 2011 using the official food energy intake and the cost of basic needs approaches, both of...
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