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Choosing Environmental Policy Tools: Theoretical Cautions and Practical Considerations
Russell, Clifford S.; Powell, Philip T. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996
This working paper contains a review and analysis of environmental policy tools in Latin America. It contains a review of the instruments themselves and their properties are discussed in both static and dynamic contexts. The report brings together the institutional and more narrowly economic...
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Freier Welthandel und umweltverträgliche Entwicklung
Franke, Angela - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 49 (1996) 21, pp. 15-24
Im Auftrag der Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies hat das ifo Institut untersucht, inwieweit sich umweltpolitische Probleme unter Freihandelsbedingungen lösen lassen. Während Verfechter des Freihandels handelspolitische Maßnahmen generell für ungeeignet zur Erreichung ökologischer...
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Öko-Audit-Verordnung - ein Impuls für den Umweltmarkt?
Horsch, Helga; Altenburg, Ursula - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 03 (1996) 04, pp. 20-25
Eigenkontrolle basiert. Es führt zu einem betrieblichen Umweltschutz, der über die Einhaltung allein gesetzesbedingter Umweltauflagen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005010303
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Republic of Madagascar; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on the Republic of Madagascar explain the Madagascar Action Plan (MAP) to accelerate and better coordinate the development process. The National Leadership Institute of Madagascar (NLIM) was created in 2006 to provide cutting-edge training to build...
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Burundi; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper II
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper II (PRSP-II) examines the major development challenges faced by Burundi. The paper identifies achievements in areas such as security and governance, but draws attention to the below-par performance in overall economic growth and development. The primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245433
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Alternative Forms of Mineral Taxation, Market Failure and the Environment
Muzondo, Timothy R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992
This paper examines the environmental effects of mineral taxes in a framework that recognizes the importance of rates and cumulative externalities and proposes an appropriate corrective tax. It concludes that mineral resources taxation should combine neutral taxes with a dynamic Pigovian type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263912
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT
DUMITRU, Raluca-Ana-Maria - In: Internal Auditing and Risk Management 2 (2013) 30, pp. 333-343
As a consequence of general economic growth, progress in all areas of economic and social life, the human being came today to have the technical means improved so that consuming huge quantities of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, exploiting the ever increasing and changing the...
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Modelling trade and environmental linkages in China
Huang, Haixiao; Labys, Walter C. - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4 (2004) 4, pp. 242-266
Interactions between trade and the environment have been studied extensively as a reaction to the pressure that the … accelerated pace of globalisation has placed on environment and trade. Distinguishing itself from previous work, this study … focuses on a modelling analysis of the interactions between trade and the environment in China. A non-linear simultaneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461294
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Modelling trade and environmental linkages in China
Huang, Haixiao; Labys, Walter C. - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4 (2004) 4, pp. 242-266
Interactions between trade and the environment have been studied extensively as a reaction to the pressure that the … accelerated pace of globalisation has placed on environment and trade. Distinguishing itself from previous work, this study … focuses on a modelling analysis of the interactions between trade and the environment in China. A non-linear simultaneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754002
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An overview of microfinance and the environmental sustainability of smallholder agriculture
Lal, Abhishek; Israel, Elizabeth - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 5 (2006) 4, pp. 356-376
The interest and growth in microfinance have burgeoned during the last two decades with the involvement of both private and public sector agencies. As a result of the interest in this sector, microfinance services have grown rapidly. However, little attention has been given to the environmental...
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