Recently I have had some serious discussions with highly educated and thoughtful friends over the issue of global warming and the need to adopt costly remedial policies. These friends were totally convinced that the warming was real, caused by humans and that remedial policies were essential to...

The Fifth Summits of the Americas has included important aspects to be included in the agenda ofthe OAS. Democracy has historically proven that generates higher degrees of economic growth at global level when it is supported by Freedom (human rights) and based on the Capitalism economic system...

Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...

Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...

The mandate for this study was to undertake an evaluation of EU external action as managed by three DGs: DG RELEX, DG DEV and DG AIDCO. The Terms of Reference identified two main objectives (ToR, Feb 2010, Section 1 – reproduced in Annex 1): · To provide an overall independent assessment of...