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The Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress, Priorities and IDB Support for their Implementation

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …

The Millennium Development Goals were formalized in the Millennium Declaration, which was endorsed by 189 Heads of State and Government at the United Nations Millennium Summit of 2000. Achieving these Goals through sustainable growth and advances in key areas such as education, health,...

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Natural Partners: How People in Latin America Are Forging a New Relationship with Their Natural Environment Title: Aliados naturales: La gente de América Latina forja una nueva rel...

Hamilton, Roger - Inter-American Development Bank

The stories included in this volume were published originally in IDBAmérica and tell of new approaches the people of Latin America and the Caribbean are taking to protect the rainforest, reduce erosion, conserve marine life, create protected areas, and ensure a better future for themselves and...

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Investment Incentives under Emission Trading: An Experimental Study

Camacho-Cuena, Eva; Requate, Till; Waichman, Israel - Departament d'Economia, Universitat Jaume I - 2012

and grandfathering. We nevertheless find that although the market institution used to reallocate permits does not impact …

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Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests

Alix-Garcia, Jennifer; Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity, and the presence of vegetation key to maintaining...

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Environmental policy and growth when inputs are differentiated in pollution intensity

Ricci, Francesco - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2007

Environmental policy affects the distribution of market shares if intermediate goods are differentiated in their … most productive. In this case, the tax has to increase along a balanced growth path to keep the market shares of goods of …, because it increases the market share of recent vintages, and promotes environment-friendly technological progress. As a …

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Can ecolabeling schemes preserve the environment?

Ibanez, Lisette; Grolleau, Gilles - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2008

A three-stage game of production technology, signal and price competition is developed to study the impact of eco-labeling, in a duopoly model of vertical product differentiation. The production technology and the subsequent pollution level are non-observable by consumers. The only way to inform...

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Optimal soil management and environmental policy

Lafforgue, Gilles; Oueslati, Walid - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2007

This paper studies the effects of environmental policy on the farmer's soil optimal management. We consider a dynamic economic model of soil erosion where the intensity use of inputs allows the farmer to control soil losses. Inputs use induces a pollution which is accentuated by the soil...

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Environment, directed technical change and economic policy

Grimaud, André; Rougé, Luc - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2008

We study the effects of an economic policy in an endogenous growth general equilibrium framework where production of consumption goods requires two resource inputs: a polluting non-renewable resource and a non-polluting labour resource. The use of the former contributes to the accumulation of...

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Explaining the environmental Kuznets Curve: the case of sulphur emissions

Bruyn, Sander M. de - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1997

Environmental Kuznets Curves have been estimated using a simple econometric model that hampers interpretation of the various determinants underlying the inverted-U-shaped relationship between some pollutants and income. Explanations for the observed patterns have been offered ex-post without...

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Performance measurement in environmental management at the local level : an experiment and proposal with reference to Switzerland

Dafflon, Bernard; Daguet, Sandra - Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - … - 2012

This paper deals with the management of three environmental policies at the local level: clean water distribution, sewage and wastewater treatment and household solid waste collection and treatment. The argument is that applying the benefit principle for financing these services will enhance...

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