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Global climate changes on the surrounding sea surface and sea temperature appear to be more significant around islands and low-lying sea ports rather than land-locked states. Subject to the global rate of sea level rise, presently circa 3.1mm/year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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We develop an aggregated model to study rational environmental adaptation policies that compensate negative consequences of certain environmental hazards and changes. The model distinguishes the three categories of adaptation measures that (a) compensate the decrease of the environmental amenity...
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Intense climate-related disasters - floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves - have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures, on average, have been rising, and are becoming more variable and more...
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Are improvements in growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the mid-1990s sustainable? What types of growth strategies … contributing to the post-1995 improvement in growth. Second, to shed some light on factors associated with substantial jumps in … growth rates that are sustained in the medium term, an analysis of the correlates of growth accelerations is presented. Third …
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A broad summary of the theoretical literature on economic growth shows this theory has transcended the neoclassical … types of instrumented regressions for each matrix entry: levels regressions; growth regressions; growth regressions also … containing the contemporary growth of independent variables. I find that demographic transition and urbanization and technology …
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The authors study the sources and pattern of China's impressive economic growth over the past 25 years and show that … large extent rooted in China's growth strategy, and resolving them requires a rebalancing of policies. Using both … macroeconomic level and sector data and analyses, the authors extend the growth accounting framework to decompose the sources of …
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towards less intensive ones, like knowledge, education, and leisure. -- sustainability ; climate change ; growth ; GHG ; CO2 …
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growth model to explore the conditions under which an economy is sustainable, considering different types of risk. In general … equilibrium, sustainability boils down to supply-side factors, with increased growth, decreased consumption risk, and greater …
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pursue economic growth at the cost of environmental degradation and overexploitation. This contribution focuses on the actor …
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Industrial policy is back on the agenda and the consensus is that it must be different "this time" from the past. We redefine industrial policy for industrialised countries as a strategy to promote "high-road competitiveness", understood as the ability of an economy to achieve "Beyond-GDP"...
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