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Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) as short term measures for decarbonisation of the shipping industry; the IMO also made the … impacts of slow steaming on states, with a special focus on Small Island Development States and Least Developed Countries …, when used as the primary modality of reducing GHG emissions from shipping. This effort includes peer-reviewed studies and …
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This paper examines the efficiency of public sector expenditures at achieving social sector outcomes in small island …
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The Doha Ministerial Declaration emphasized that priority should be given to improving market access for products originating in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). In this paper, we analyze the importance of this proposition with respect to market access in the Triad economies. We first...
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Aid is not generally aimed at the poorest people, though most multilateral or bilateral agencies would like to think they get included. However, donors' strategies are generally blind to differentiation among the poor, and have not improved in this respect. The special provisions for the least...
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This study investigates the effect of trade liberalization on export growth, import growth, the trade balance and the current account of the balance of payments in 17 least developed countries (LDCs) over the period 1970 to 2001. The paper also assesses the marginal relation between capital...
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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...
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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...
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enable their full exploitation. However, island systems have low stability, as they are highly sensitive to exogenous stress … phenomena affecting the island of Salina (Aeolian islands-Messina) offering elements for the assessment of future local …
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This paper examines the impact of increasing integration of the island economies of the South Pacific into expanding … international markets, particularly that of Fiji and the Solomon Islands. Since the 1980s, globalization of the world economy has … altered dramatically the volume and character of international resource flow. This has provided small island economies …
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Warenhandels zählte die Frachtschifffahrt in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten zu den wachstumsstarken Wirtschaftsbereichen. Die … Wohlstands in zahlreichen Regionen der Welt werden auch zukünftig eine deutliche Expansion des Welthandels und der … Frachtschifffahrt erfordern. Deshalb ist die maritime Logistik ein Wirtschaftszweig mit günstigen Entwicklungsperspektiven. Die …
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