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Strategic environmental aid and trade
Yoon, Sang Won - 2021
The paper examines the determinants of environmental aid, using an empirically testable multilateral framework in which both donors and recipient countries compete in world export markets. Potential donors tend to behave strategically, weighing environmental benefits against the economic costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215868
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Greening Development Planning : A Review of Country Case Studies for Making the Economic Case for Improved Management of Environment and Natural Resources
Drakenberg, Olof; Paulsen, Sandra; Andersson, Jessica; … - 2009
Different approaches to making the economic case for improved management of natural capital in national planning are reviewed in this report. In many low-income countries natural resources sectors (agriculture, mining, forestry, fishery, nature-based tourism) are identified as the engines of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443028
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Towards green growth in emerging market economies : evidence from environmental performance reviews
Samson, Rachel; Capozza, Ivana - 2019
This paper provides a cross-country review of progress towards green growth in selected emerging market economies that are members or partners of the OECD. It draws on the country studies conducted within the OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012380
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Envirodevonomics : A Research Agenda for a Young Field
Greenstone, Michael; Jack, B. Kelsey - 2013
Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153855
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International Environmental Law and the Global South - Introduction
Gonzalez, Carmen G.; Atapattu, Sumudu - 2015
The unprecedented degradation of the planet’s vital ecosystems is among the most pressing issues confronting the international community. Despite the proliferation of legal instruments to combat environmental problems, conflicts between rich and poor nations (the North-South divide) have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133757
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Polluting technologies and sustainable economic development
Bertinelli, Luisito (contributor); Strobl, Eric (contributor) - 2006
period until which pollution may eventually decrease and cause this turning point to be reached at a higher level of … pollution. An empirical analysis using export data of vintage technologies from the US and Europe to developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003731219
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Green and brown? : globalization and the environment
Boyce, James K. - 2004
Globalization - viewed as a process of economic integration that embraces governance as well as markets - could lead to worldwide convergence toward higher or lower environmental quality, or to environmental polarization in which the 'greening' of the global North is accompanied by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527046
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Environmental Kuznets Curves for Air Pollution in African and Developed Countries : Exploring Turning Point Incomes and the Role of Democracy
Sulemana, Iddisah - 2016
environmental pollution. Scholars have estimated turning point incomes for various pollutants within and across countries. However … countries. In particular, the relationship between economic growth and air pollution in Africa remains largely unexplored. In … countries. Further, our examination of the effect of democracy on air pollution reveals an insignificant effect for CO2 for both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983525
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Slow and steady wins the race : how the garment industry leads industrialization in low-income countries
Fukunishi, Takahiro; Yamagata, Tatsufumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper investigates how the garment industry escapes this vicious cycle and argues for the validity of labor-intensive industry as a starting point for full-fledged industrialization, even though it might at first seem to be a digression from the path to an innovation-led economy. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690295
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Energy savings via FDI? Empirical evidence from developing countries
Hübler, Michael; Keller, Andreas - 2008
In this paper we examine the influence of foreign direct investment inflows on energy intensities of developing countries empirically. We first show that a simple OLS estimation, as it is found in the literature, suggests energy intensity reductions from FDI inflows, which is consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273165