This paper reviews selected initiatives taken by Asian countries to comply with emerging global sustainability standards, reporting, and management systems, and tracks the response of Asian businesses to global environmental concerns, examines market based innovations including new regulations...

This dissertation comprises four pieces of economic research which analyze the efficiency of decision making units with regard to the production of undesirable outputs. These studies are motivated by the challenges arising from the phenomenon of climate change. An analysis of automobiles in the...

This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...