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World Bank. The representatives of the governments now play the role of administrators and representatives of the industry …
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Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde. This is allegedly the African country suffering from the largest "brain drain",...
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migration flows for the whole world. In contrast to their findings, and despite of the slowdown of population growth in Latin … America, the US will face sustained immigration pressures because of strong population growth in other regions of the world …, leading to a projected immigrant stock that grows for decades to come. For the world as a whole, international migrants are …
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estimation of leakage inprojects in developing Asia and Latin America. …
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The two key threats to coal`s long term dominance in Asia are: (1) its uneven distribution of reserves and lack of … deterioration of the environment in Asia for another one to two decades. China will remain the largest polluter in Asia, but it …`s believed it will become Asia`s largest user of emissions control technology by 2015. The authors have subjectively weighed the …
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listed for about 85 countries, where available, from 1970 through 1991. World and regional summaries are given in both …
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An analysis of the impact of the political disruption in Iran on the world oil market is presented. During the first … for export from Iran to the rest of the world. This loss of production and the political climate in Iran have caused much … in the nearterm and midterm. The analysis describes these issues in terms of two critical factors: the world oil price …
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This study identifies a strategy that (1) provides future energy services for Hainan in the least environmentally degrading way, (2) eliminates the need to build significant amounts of new fossil-fueled, electric generating capacity, saving capital to invest in other development projects, (3)...
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We evaluate the conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for managing the rapidly increasing electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved energy using 16 W CFLs is 4 and 6 times less than the long...
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team proposed a comprehensive evaluation of safety and security regulations in the target geographical area, Southeast Asia …
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