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Trade and development in the 1980s

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986

In international circles, the concern of the day is the state of the world economy. There is a general appreciation of the severity of the problem, but no widespread agreement about either diagnosis or solutions. We shall focus here on a particular set of topics that have emerged as major issues...

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Modeling International Trends in Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emissions

Stern, David I. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This study uses a stochastic production frontier to model trends in energy efficiency over time in a panel of 85 … a literature survey and theoretical model of the choice of energy efficiency technology. An improvement in a country …’s energy efficiency is measured as a reduction in energy intensity while holding constant the input and output structure of …

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Income, resources, and electricity mix

Burke, Paul J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

. The extent to which countries climb the electricity ladder is dependent on energy endowments. The results imply that the … environmental implications of economic development differ in countries with different energy resource endowments. An effective …

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Does Global Climate Policy Promote Low-Carbon Cities? Lessons Learnt From The CDM

Sippel, Maike; Michaelowa, Axel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

An increasing proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas in industrializing and developing countries. Recent research shows that per capita emissions in cities like Bangkok, Cape Town or Shanghai have already reached the level of cities like London, New York or Toronto....

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What about local climate governance? A review of promise and problems

Sippel, Maike; Jenssen, Till - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

A large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas, particularly in high income countries. Cities are also vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and particularly so in developing countries. Therefore, local climate policies for mitigation and adaptation have to play...

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Geographic oil concentration and economic growth – a panel data analysis

Torres, Nuno; Afonso, Óscar; Soares, Isabel - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2009

Given a panel of oil producing countries, we show that a higher oil concentration is associated with an increase in economic growth through capital efficiency in: (i) countries with medium and low income per head from East Asia & Pacific and Latin America & the Caribbean, classified as followers...

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Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism and Jevons’ Paradox for Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland

Iorgulescu Polimeni, Raluca; Polimeni, John M. - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting 4 (2007) 4, pp. 61-76

International agencies and national governments base their energy strategies on gross domestic product (GDP) growth … rates and energy intensity goals. Given the complexity of the transition process from a command economy to an open …-market economy in Central and Eastern Europe, this paper argues that the use of energy intensity as an objective for the energy …

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The connection between oil and economic growth revisited

Torres, Nuno; Afonso, Óscar; Soares, Isabel - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010

This study shows that the cross-section “curse” result found with oil abundance indicators for producing countries disappears in a panel estimation considering the most important growth factors. This happens even excluding institutional quality, which is hindered by oil and ores abundance in...

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An application of MSIASM to Chinese exosomatic energy metabolism

Giampietro, Mario; Mayumi, Kozo; Ramos-Martín, Jesús - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma … - 2008

The methodology of Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism (MSIASM) is applied to analyze the Chinese economy. This paper presents four tasks: (i) identifying a set of benchmarks that makes it possible to compare various characteristics of the Chinese economy with those of other...

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Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MUSIASEM): An Outline of Rationale and Theory

Giampietro, Mario; Mayumi, Kozo; Ramos-Martín, Jesus - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma … - 2008

economy in relation to two primary factors: (i) human time - a fund; and (ii) exosomatic energy - a flow. The three levels …

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