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Environmental and economic impact of carbon credit in Makassar City in Indonesia
Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Fukuda, Takahide - 2015
Economic measures are advanced to environmental problems in EU nations. The economic approach imposes a constant economic load on activities negatively affecting the environment, and it is also a technique for giving a constant profit for activities conserving the environment. The whole society...
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Economic impact of CO2 emissions and carbon tax in electric vehicle society in Toyohashi City in Japan
Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Fujii, Tomoaki - 2015
In this paper, we explore the economic impact of promotion and realization of an electric vehicle society (EVS) in Toyohashi City in Japan. More concretely, this paper emphasizes a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling approach to evaluate the following issues: economic impacts of...
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Precipitation and economic growth
Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2019
As the ongoing process of global warming goes along with changes in both mean precipitation and precipitation extremes, the scientific interest in the effects of rainfall on economic prosperity has recently grown significantly. However, the few existing empirical studies of short-run growth...
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Antecedents of environmentally friendly manufacturing practices among SMEs in Africa : evidence from Uganda
Ayebale, Dan; Nafunka, Esther; Ayebale, Ahurra Hope - In: Economic integration, currency union, and sustainable …, (pp. 137-149). 2016
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Implementing trade facilitation reform in Africa
Johns, Marcus Bartley; Busch, Christina; McLinden, Gerard - In: African perspectives on trade and the WTO : domestic …, (pp. 295-313). 2016
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New directions in EU-Africa development initiatives
Babarinde, Olufemi A. - In: EU development policies : between norms and geopolitics, (pp. 111-134). 2019
This chapter analyzes the European Union's (EU) development initiatives in Africa. The relationship between the EU and … Africa dates back to the inauguration of the EU in the 1950s and has since undergone different iterations as a paragon of … Global North and Global South development interactions. The analysis includes the Joint Africa-Europe Strategy, because of …
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An economic analysis of municipal solid waste management of Toyohashi city, Japan : evidence from environmental Kuznets Curve
Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Hossain, Nahid - 2013
The study of Toyohashi city fs economic growth and resultant growth in municipal solid waste management were empirically examined by the relation between city economic growth, city expenditure for solid waste management and municipal solid waste. The growth in the economy and the population has...
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International trade and emissions : a Miyazawa approach
Vale, Vinicius de Almeida; Perobelli, Fernando Salgueiro; … - 2014
Nowadays, an important debate in the international economies is the problem of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change related. Discussions begin to gain the world with the signature of the Kyoto Protocol (1997), where an international agreement was reached to reduce global emissions....
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Keeping up with the Joneses by finding a better-paid job : the effect of relative income on job mobility
Kronenberg, Kristin; Kronenberg, Tobias - 2011
It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self-reported happiness. This suggests that people who aim at increasing their happiness should try to find a better-paid job if their relative income is low. In this paper we study this...
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Tarification à l'activité et réadmission
Yilmaz, Engin; Vuagnat, Albert - In: Economie et statistique 475/476 (2015), pp. 71-87
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