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Structural change, environment and well-being : interactions between production and consumption choices of the rich and the poor in developing countries

Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2008

Vulnerability to scarcity or to reduction of natural capital depends on defensive substitution possibilities that, in turn, are affected by the availability of other productive factors. However, in several developing countries asset distribution tends to be highly skewed. Taking into ac- count...

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Informal Regulation of Industrial Pollution in Developing Countries : Evidence from Indonesia

Pargal, Sheoli; Wheeler, David - 2014

When formal regulation is weak or absent, communities often use other channels to induce pollution abatement by local … factories in a process of "informal regulation." The resulting "pollution equilibrium" reflects the relative bargaining power of … the community and the plant. This note uses Indonesian data from 1989-90 on plant-level organic water pollution to test …

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Designing Collusion-Proof International Environmental Agreements : Developing Countries and Polluting Firms

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2014

pollution abatement and then the SNGA offers an incentive compatible and collusion-proof IEA to the two DC parties. In the … principal conclusions are as follows: First, the contractually specified levels of pollution abatement and the pattern of the … contracting with monitoring device manipulation, the SNGA will prefer contracting with a ceiling constraint. Fourth, the pollution …

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Sustainable tourism and hotel management in Meacedonia through the use of renewable energy source

Petrevska, Biljana; Cingoski, Vlatko; Serafimova, Mimoza - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 123-132

This study aimed to investigate the nature of energy applied in hotel industry in Macedonia. It explored the indicators for resources application in three, four and five star hotels. The data were collected by means of an online survey conducted among 45 managers and department supervisors. It...

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Sustainability Initiatives in Developing Countries : Green Buildings in Lebanon

kanbar, nancy - 2013

Climate change is one of the most critical environmental issues of the twenty first century. Buildings have a negative environmental impact; they emit Green House Gases (GHG), consume energy, water, and raw materials. Managers of firms working in the building sector take important decisions when...

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Financing the alternative : renewable energy in developing and transition countries

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2006

This paper examines the determinants of credit allocation to renewable energy firms in developing and transition countries. Using a simple endogenous growth model, we show that the development of the renewable energy sector, i.e. the diversification of renewable energy resources used in primary...

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Fiscal Policy, Public Capital and Economic Growth

Altar, Moisa - 2008

The effect of public investment on economic growth is a crucial public policy issue. Empirical research into this question was stimulated by Aschauer (1989), who suggested that public capital has a powerful impact on the productivity of private capital.Aschauer's results were controversial and...

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Productive consumption and growth in developing countries

Steger, Thomas M. - 1997

Productive consumption enables the satisfaction of current needs and, at the same time, increases the productive potential of labour. Theoretical as well as empirical evidence suggests that productive consumption is primarily relevant to low-income countries. From the perspective of growth...

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Growth and Growth Rate

Choi, Hak - 2016

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Balancing short-run costs and long-run gains : the welfare implications of investing in new technologies in developing countries

Cruz, Bruno de Oliveira - 2023

There is long tradition in the economic literature that recognizes learning and the diffusion of new ideas and technologies as one of major drivers for growth, especially in developing countries. However, while adopting a new technology mainly involves cost, some technologies may also be human...

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