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the adoption of fossil fuels as its main energy source, the impact of world con flicts, the gradual replacement of coal by …
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industrial revolution, the gradual replacement of coal by oil and gas as alternative sources of energy, and the progressive catch …
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of sustainable development, using invariant coordinate system in energy units, as well as the impact of structural … the frame of structural economic Kaldor model of GDP and the energy flows models. Finding - The advanced countries have … seen a trend of "zero growth" and a decrease in useful energy production in the last 10 years. These countries have high …
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How much will the global population expand, can all these extra mouths be fed, and what is the role in this story of economic growth? We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global...
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This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania. Sequentially-linked models capture natural resource constraints; emissions from land use change; economywide growth linkages; and household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic...
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Several studies have examined the relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth. However, most of them did not take into account financial developments and institutional quality. Moreover, Stern (2004) noted that there are important econometric weaknesses in the earlier...
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Environmentally motivated aid can help developing countries to achieve economic growth while mitigating the impact on emission levels. We argue that the usual practice of giving aid conditionally is not effective, and we therefore study aid that is given unconditionally. Our framework is a...
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This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series data (1971-2006) from China (an emerging market), Korea (a newly industrialized country), and...
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This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series data (1971-2006) from China (an emerging market), Korea (a newly industrialized country), and...
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This paper uses historical fluctuations of temperature and precipitation within Chinese counties to identify their effects on the growth of economic outcome during 1996 and 2012. We find three primary results. First, higher temperature significantly reduces the growth rate of county-level income...
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