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Evaluating Projects and Assessing Sustainable Development in Imperfect Economies
Arrow, Kenneth; Dasgupta, Partha; Mäler, Karl-Göran - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
We are interested in three related questions: (1) How should accounting prices be estimated? (2) How should we evaluate policy change in an imperfect economy? (3) How can we check whether intergenerational well-being will be sustained along a projected economic programme? We do not presume that...
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Achieving Sustainable Consumption for Sustainable Development: Issues and Solutions
K, Sudarkodi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Promoting sustainable consumption and production are important aspects of sustainable development. Agenda 21, endorsed by the United Nations Conference on Economic Development (UNCED) in 1992, identified unsustainable consumption and production patterns, particularly in industrialised countries,...
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Not all that Glitters Is Gold: Gold Boom, Child Labor and Schooling in Colombia
Santos, Rafael José - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2014
This paper estimates the impact of the boom in international gold prices on child labor and schooling in Colombia. I first set up a simple agricultural household model of child labor and commodity prices hocks which guides the empirical analysis. Then, I use individual level information from the...
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Borrower Targeting under Micro-finance Competition with Motivated MFIs
Guha, Brishti; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2012
We examine how increased competition among motivated MFIs impacts the poorest borrowers’ access to microfinance. We find that it depends on inequality, technology and the possibility of double-dipping (borrowing from several sources). Without competition, even a motivated MFI may lend to the...
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What Attracts tourists to Paradise?
Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper investigates the determinants of tourism demand in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. We estimate the … demand function in a panel setting using annual data from 1979 to 2005. Results show that tourism arrivals are significantly … servicing a destination, are also found to be significant determinants of tourism demand. …
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Handbook of Tourism Economics:Analysis, New Applications and Case Studies
Tisdell, Clement A (contributor) - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Handbook of Tourism Economics: Analysis, New Applications and Case Studies provides an up-to-date, concise and readable … coverage of the most important topics in tourism economics. It pays attention to relevant traditional topics in tourism … applications of economic analysis to tourism policy and constructive assessment of contemporary thought about tourism economics …
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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth after Liberalisation: An Analysis of Indian States
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Chakraborty, Debashis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Economic growth does not necessarily ensure environmental sustainability for a country. The relationship between the two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population on natural resources for livelihood. Under this...
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Canada 2030: An Agenda for Sustainable Development
Kindornay, Shannon; Standards, Centre for the Study of … - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2015
As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their end date in 2015, negotiations are ramping up at the United Nations for the establishment of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs, to be announced in September this year, will replace the MDGs and serve as a universal...
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Investigating the effect of granted facilities by specialist banks to agriculture part on value added agriculture part of Iran
Lotfi, Habib; Ahmadzadeh Mashinchi, Sina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Iran’s agriculture part is one of the areas that can have an important effect on the growth of country’s economy. Concerning this, variables that can increase value added agriculture have been concentrated on and the government is supporting them. One of these policies is granting loanable...
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Strategies for Success in Human Development.
Ranis, G.; Stewart, F. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000
Human development is defined as the improvement of the human condition so that people live longer, healthier and fuller lives. In the development of the concept of HD under the leadership of Mahbub ul Haq, some aspects of HD were related to people's physical well-being, such as health, nutrition...
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