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Poverty Status and IQ Gains from Revising the Dust Lead Hazard Standards: A Method for Evaluating Environmental Justice Implications?
LaPenta, Matthew - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2010
the dust lead hazard standards for floors. For simplicity this paper only addresses populations as defined by poverty … defined according to alternative income categories. The method for estimating IQ gains from changes in dust lead levels … follows the approach described in EPA’s 2008 report, The Approach Used for Estimating Changes in Children’s IQ from Lead Dust …
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Measuring Energy Security; Trends in the Diversification of Oil and Natural Gas Supplies
Loungani, Prakash; Joutz, Frederick L.; Cohen, Gail - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
We present evidence on one facet of energy security in OECD economies - the extent of diversification in sources of oil and natural gas supplies. Viewed from the perspective of the energy-importing countries as a whole, there has not been much change in diversification in oil supplies over the...
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Identifying the Linkages Between Major Mining Commodity Prices and China’s Economic Growth-Implications for Latin America
Yu, Yongzhen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Major mining commodity prices are inherently volatile and cyclical. High levels of investment in China have been a key driver in the strong world demand for minerals and metals over the past decade. The urbanization and industrialization of China has been an important factor behind the increase...
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Welfare Effects of Child Lead Exposure: Inferences from the Demand for Chelatin Therapy.
Agee, M.D.; Crocker, T.D. - Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University - 1995
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Mongolia; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The vast mineral deposits of Mongolia, if properly managed, could make available large budgetary resources, which would help address a wide range of its economic challenges. This report focuses on Mongolia’s selected issues in the mining sector, government employment and wages, and saving...
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Euro Area Policies; Spillover Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation and Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
The euro area (EA) plays a major role in the global economy. Market perceptions of events in the EA program countries illustrate the possibility of large spillovers from the area in times of stress. The prospect of large spillovers underscores the urgent need for actions to contain, and...
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The United States; Spillover Report: 2011 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
policy spillovers. Concerns that the end of QE2 could lead to a rapid reversal of emerging market capital flows appear …
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People’s Republic of China; Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
Hong Kong, like other city financial centers, has a high private saving rate. This paper seeks to understand what the principal drivers of saving and investment in financial centers are. Cyclical frequency changes affecting international financial and trade linkages are key drivers of saving and...
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Benchmark Priors Revisited:on Adaptive Shrinkage and the Supermodel Effect in Bayesian Model Averaging
Feldkircher, Martin; Zeugner, Stefan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
Default prior choices fixing Zellner's g are predominant in the Bayesian Model Averaging literature, but tend to concentrate posterior mass on a tiny set of models. The paper demonstrates this supermodel effect and proposes to address it by a hyper-g prior, whose data-dependent shrinkage adapts...
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The limits to growth and 'finite' mineral resources: re-visiting the assumptions and drinking from that half-capacity glass
Mudd, Gavin M. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 16 (2013) 3/4, pp. 204-220
The famous 1972 study 'Limits to growth' (LtG) created global controversy about its dire predictions for the 21st century - e.g., global population crash, rampant pollution and resource depletion. Amongst some of the most fervent critics was the mining industry, who argued that mineral-metals...
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