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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa

van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986

The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...

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A TALE OF TWO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS: TUNISIA AND MOROCCO

Friedman, Steven J - 2010

Morocco and Tunisia have both achieved robust economic growth over the last 30 years by utilizing prudent economic … Morocco and Tunisia have transformed both from economically challenged debt-burdened nations into technologically advanced …, diversified and thriving middle-class nations. From 1962 to the Present Day, Morocco has averaged a GDP growth rate of 5.8% and …

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A Comparative Analysis of the EU-Morocco FTA vs. Multilateral Liberalization

Elbehri, Aziz; Hertel, Thomas - 2004

contrast the impacts of the Morocco-EU free trade area (FTA) to multilateral trade liberalization on Morocco’s economy …. Simulation results show that the FTA agreement is likely to have adverse effects on Morocco due to: (a) deteriorating terms of … liberalization scenario along the lines of those proposed under the Doha Development Round and find this more beneficial to Morocco …

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The tariff reduction on Agricultural sector in Iran

Salarpour, Mashallah; Hasanpour, Hadi - 2009

This study explains the results of trade reforms for a scenario where reduced tariffs for all imported commodities under the Uruguay Round (UR) since 1995. The Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) analysis and input-output data for Iran using a base year, 1991, were applied simulating the short...

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Renewables, Policy, and the Cost of Capital

Baratoff, Michael; Guenther, Christian; Garratt, Matthew; … - 2007

Public policy has played a critical role in creating and shaping global renewable energymarkets. Yet 30 years since the passage of the first federal program in the U.S., under thePublic Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), renewable power generation still constitutesless than three percent...

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Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee – Inquiry Into the Effects of Climate Change on Training and Employment Needs

Hampson, Keith D.; Furneaux, Craig W.; Scuderi, Peter - 2008

the built environment. The planned successor to this CRC – the Sustainable Built Environment Centre will further progress environmental sustainability for the built environment as the Centre’s future is confirmed in early 2009. We would like to thank the Senate Committee for the opportunity...

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Managing catastrophic risk by alternative risk transfer instruments

Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010

Chapter 1 analyzes hybrid-trigger CAT bonds, a new CAT bond deal that can reduce basis risk and eliminate moral hazard simultaneously. It is the first research that provides analytical evidence on the condition under which the hybrid trigger has lower basis risk. Simulation results support my...

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MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS

Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010

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Climate change, carbon prices and insurance systems

Phelan, Liam; Henderson-Sellers, Ann; Taplin, Ros - 2010

Market approaches to limit CO2e emissions such as carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes (ETSs) aim to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change by ascribing a financial cost to emissions. Yet such approaches have failed to establish either emissions limits or carbon prices equal to the...

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND PRODUCTION RISK IN CHINESE AQUACULTURE

Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua - 2010

Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...

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