We propose a development-compatible refunding system designed to mitigate climate change. Industrial countries pay an initial fee into a global fund. Each country chooses its national carbon tax. Part of the global fund is refunded to developing and industrial countries, in proportion to the...

Sachzwänge im internationalen Klimaschutz: 1. Weltweit wirksame Begrenzung von Emissionen, 2. Nutzung der Ressource muss einen Preis haben, um Anreiz für sparsamen Umgang zu geben, 3. Pro-Kopf-Lösung (auch von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel gefordert), damit Indien und China mitmachen....

The Third Development Decade of the United Nations opened with a promising outlook for the developing countries. The economic situation of the OECD countries had improved during 1979 and the "North-South dialogue" seemed to be making progress. But the further course of 1980 and the subsequent...

Unconventional forms of international trade (such as counterpurchase, compensation deals and barter) have assumed rapidly growing importance, especially in many developing countries, as a consequence of the fall in commodity prices and the worsening of international debt problems since the oil...