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Trade, poverty eradication, and the sustainable development goals
Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2016
This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices, producer prices, and wages. As these mechanisms affect the real...
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Globalization and environment in India
Marjit, Sugata; Yu, Eden Siu-hung - 2018
India embarked on a path of liberal economic reform in the 1990s after years of nurturing an intensively regulated and … reform were trade and foreign investment. India has felt the impact of globalization through increased prosperity, partly … of international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) on climate change with special reference to India's economy …
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The Environmental Justice Implications of Biofuels
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2016
Analyses of the viability of biofuels as alternatives to fossil fuels have often adopted a technocratic approach that focuses on environmental consequences, but places less emphasis on the impact that biofuels may have on vulnerable populations. This Article fills the gap in the existing...
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Deconstructing the Mythology of Free Trade : Critical Reflections on Comparative Advantage
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011
The theory of comparative advantage serves as the theoretical justification for the neoliberal economic reforms promoted by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and multilateral and regional free trade agreements. This article employs insights from both neoclassical and heterodox...
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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011
This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050535
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Does lax environmental regulation attract FDI when accounting for "third-country" effects?
Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, José-Antonio - 2008 - This draft: August 2008
This paper investigates if differences in environmental regulations can influence FDI flows in a multi-country setting taking into account the so-called "third-country" effects. We examine bilateral FDI flows using a new extended OECD investment database which covers great number of host...
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Trends in policy indicators on trade and environment
Garsous, Grégoire - 2019
Addressing the relationship between domestic environmental regulations and international trade policies is essential to better understand the need for consistency and complementarity between these areas. The set of trade and environment indicators developed by the OECD aims to provide insights...
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Trade patterns and the ecological footprint a theory-based empirical approach
Dam, Thi Anh; Pasche, Markus; Werlich, Niclas - 2017
of environmental policy stringency which links our analysis to the "Pollution Haven" hypothesis. We also briefly analyse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637772
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Trade in environmental goods : empirical exploration of direct and indirect effects on pollution by country's trade status
Zugravu-Soilita, Natalia - 2017
recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in … EGs, the EGs’ net exporters are more likely to see their local pollution to decrease, in particular thanks to income …
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Carbon tariffs : an analysis of the trade, welfare and emission effects
Larch, Mario; Wanner, Joschka - 2014
Carbon tariffs are one prominently discussed environmental policy. The proponents stress the carbon tariffs' ability to mitigate the potential negative effect of environmental-friendly production on competitiveness, to avoid carbon leakage and to reduce world carbon emissions. We analyze the...
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