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Clean drinking water as a sustainable development goal : fair, universal access with increasing block tariffs

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von; Flekstad, Maya; Meran, Georg - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 28/29, pp. 292-298

drinking water. Increasing block tariffs are an instrument widely used to support access to drinking water for poorer segments …, increasing block tariffs are in line with the general public’s concept of fairness: poorer population segments should pay less …

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Taxation Untapped : The Potential of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Promote Progressive International Tax Reform

Airey, Siobhan - 2020

Taxation is a unique and valuable method to create a significant and sustainable source of domestic and international public finance for the public goods essential to the realisation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, current proposals for reform of the international tax...

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Volume and territorial distribution of the Czech Republic's official development assistance flows to least developed countries

Kovářová, Eva - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 21 (2021) 1, pp. 79-102

Official Development Assistance (ODA) is considered one of the most important external resources of finance that can contribute to sustainable development in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The Czech Republic, as an official donor country, should spend on ODA, with respect to the EU and...

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Organic agriculture in least developed countries in relation to the development of the organic farming sector in Poland : the example of African xountries versus the organic sector...

Rydz-Żbikowska, Anna - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 209-230

Over the past few years, organic farming has seen a dynamic development globally. In 2015, the global market for organic products was €81.6 billion, rising to more than €90 billion in 2018 (Światowy rynek produktów ekologicznych osiągnął wartość 90 mld euro 2019). There has also been...

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Assessing the macroeconomic and social impacts of slow steaming in shipping : a literature review on small island developing states and least developed countries

Vakili, Seyedvahid; Ballini, Fabio; Schönborn, Alessandro - In: Journal of shipping and trade 8 (2023) 1, pp. 1-25

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has adopted the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) as short term measures for decarbonisation of the shipping industry; the IMO also made the collection of relevant data and associated reporting of...

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International perspectives on socio-economic development in the era of globalization

Sen, Saurabh (ed.); Bhattacharya, Anshuman (ed.); … - 2016

"This book seeks to examine the existing variability of development in the global marketplace and to identify the catalysts responsible for this disparity of success, analyzing the economic frontiers, social norms, and infrastructural capabilities that factor into the socio-economic growth of...