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Traditional measures of multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth generally do not recognise natural capital as inputs into the production process. Since productivity growth is measured as the residual between output and input growth, it will pick up the growth in unmeasured inputs, which can lead...
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Korea, which has had the highest growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD area since 1990, adopted an ambitious Green Growth Strategy in 2009. It aims at reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” scenario, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. The...
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Switzerland has low greenhouse gas emissions per capita as compared to other countries, which reflects the strong reliance on energy sources emitting few greenhouse gas emissions, especially in electricity generation, and little heavy industry. Greenhouse gas emissions have remained almost the...
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invest than renters and low-income households. On the other hand, social context, such as membership in an environmental non … Household Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes. The empirical analysis is based on the estimation of binary logit regression … ownership, income, social context and households’ information. Indeed, home owners and high-income households are more likely to …
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Population growth is often viewed as a most oppressive global problem with respect to environmental deterioration, but … the relationships between population development, economic dynamics and environmental pollution are complex due to various … polluting emissions within an optimal control model of the coupled demographic-economic-environmental system. We show that a …
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Achieving a low-greenhouse gas (GHG) development requires making finance flows consistent with this objective. In order to measure progress to date as well as inform future public action in this area, this paper calls for further efforts to track gross primary investments flows in new...
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Tourism has boomed in Indonesia in recent years and is already one of the main sources of foreign-currency earnings. Indonesia has rich and diverse natural assets, whose tourism potential remains underutilised. The government has an ambitious target of attracting 20 million tourists by 2019, up...
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This report aims to test whether the inclusion of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) has … contributed to the improvement of environmental quality among the Parties to these agreements through empirical modelling and … analysis. Three indicators are considered as a proxy for environmental quality: concentrations of suspended particulate matter …
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The transition towards a more resource efficient and circular economy has broad linkages with international trade through the emergence of global value chains as well as trade in second-hand goods, end-of-life products, secondary materials and waste. Despite of the potential linkages between...
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This paper identifies opportunities to refine OECD’s indicators of land cover and land use and their regular production for all OECD and G20 countries. A comprehensive review is conducted of the available datasets at the global, regional and national levels, including data derived from remote...
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