Starting from the crisis on the real economy in 2008 it has been developed an intense discussion, supported by a number of declarations on the global scale, about the need for changes in the economy. A huge impact on this state of affairs was the analysis of the causes and effects of the...

el sector eléctrico boliviano está en una situación crítica; prueba de ello son las dificultades observadas para satisfacer la demanda de energía eléctrica y los crecientes racionamientos energéticos que se están generando. el bajo precio por la energía generada desestimula las...

This article discuss about the importance of green economy investments, both in terms of sustainable development, and also in terms of environmental projects that can be a solution for getting out of current economic crisis. In the first part the article analyzes the evolution of environmental...

The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal principle for its population, assuring economic and social...

This paper investigates the impact of changes in the stringency of environmental policies on productivity growth in OECD countries. Using a new environmental policy stringency (EPS) index, it estimates a reduced-form model of multi-factor productivity growth, where the effect of countries'...

In this paper we apply an additive two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) estimator on a panel of 27 Annex I countries for the time period 2006-2010 in order to create sustainability efficiency indexes. The sustainability efficiency indexes are decomposed into economic and eco-efficiency...

Environmental economics has traditionally fallen in the domain of microeconomics, but recently approaches from macroeconomics have been applied to studying environmental policy. We focus on two macroeconomic tools and their application to environmental economics. First, real business cycle...

La reducción de la pobreza, que afecta a más de un tercio de la población en América Latina y el Caribe, es un objetivo prioritario de las políticas públicas. A partir de un breve diagnóstico de la pobreza, este artículo discute los elementos de una estrategia integral para reducirla,...

Environmental economics has traditionally fallen in the domain of microeconomics, but approaches from macroeconomics have recently been applied to studying environmental policy. We focus on two macroeconomic tools and their application to environmental economics. First, real-business-cycle...

In the modern business environment, sustainable development is largely achieved through the implementation of the concept of the green economy, both at the global and national as well as at the corporate level. The motive for the application of this concept at the level of enterprise can be...