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Global energy demand is likely to increase by 45 percent by 2030. Climate change will threaten existing employment and necessitate new green jobs. Funding has gone towards such renewable energy technologies as wind and solar; such fuel economy options as second-generation hybrids, plug-in...
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After outlining recent developments and the scope, target audience, and structure of the book, we review the literature on globalisation and environmental policy, especially the impact of globalisation on the environment and changes in environmental governance in relation to increasingly global...
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The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water,...
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goal generally implies lower taxes than do efficiency or welfare maximization. In fact, the optimal paternalistic tax is …
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …
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Across the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and 'host … inequality, to highlight the role of five key sets of factors in such variation: governmental policies and institutions; labour …
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
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The increasing wage inequality in many countries is usually seen as brought about by economic forces that drive for …
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The increasing wage inequality in many countries is usually seen as brought about by economic forces that drive for …
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