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Supply and Demand Aspects of Forestry in Turkey: A General Overview

Kayacan, Bekir; Turker, Mustafa Fehmi; Danchev, Alexy; … - In: Economic Studies journal (2005) 1, pp. 149-160

important role of the development of this sector. The paper also suggests policies followed by identification of some factors …

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Marginal Cost Versus Average Cost Pricing with Climatic Shocks in Senegal: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model Applied to Water

Briand, Anne - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The model simulates on a 20-year horizon, a first phase of increase in the water resource availability taking into account the supply policies by the Senegalese government and a second phase with hydrologic deficits due to demand evolution (demographic growth). The results show that marginal...

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Natural Resources: A Blessing or a Curse?

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We examine empirically the effect of natural resource abundance on economic growth. We find that natural resources have a negative impact on growth when considered in isolation, but a positive impact on growth when including in the analysis other variables such as corruption, investments,...

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Environmental Resources Depletion and Interplay Between Negative and Positive Externalities in a Growth Model

Antoci, Angelo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

We analyse growth dynamics in an economy where the well-being of economic agents depends on three goods: leisure, a free access environmental good and a private good which can be produced by each agent through his own labour input. The private good can be consumed as a substitute for the...

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Economic Instruments and Induced Innovation: The Case of End-of-Life Vehicles European Policies

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

The paper addresses the dynamic-incentive effect of environmental policy instruments when innovation is uncertain and occurs in very complex industrial subsystems. The case of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) is considered focusing predominantly on the effects of the European Directive adopted in...

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Determinants of agricultural land values in Argentina

Choumert, Johanna; Phélinas, Pascale - In: Ecological Economics 110 (2015) C, pp. 134-140

In the context of the rapid development of the cultivation of genetically modified soybeans in Argentina, we conduct a …

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Natural Resources and Economic Development. Some lessons from History

Willebald, Henry; Badia-Miró, Marc; Pinilla, Vicente - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2015

-based development. The conceptual core of our answer to those questions will be based on three key ideas. First, abundance of natural … resources is closely associated with levels of economic development. Second, we emphasize that an abundance of natural resources … derived from their use and exploitation. The ways in which natural resources interact with economic development are mediated …

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Revisiting the role of the resource curse in shaping institutions and growth

Murshed, Murshed, S.M.; Badiuzzaman, Badiuzzaman, M.; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2015

, first accounting for the effect of resource export dependence on institutional development. We employ several political and …

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Micro-Finance and Credit Access in the Agricultural Sector of Nicaragua

Molina, Ana C Rostran; Banerjee, Anindya; Lampis, Federico - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2015

The primary goal of this paper is to examine credit access of farmers in Nicaragua. We identify the primary factors determining their probability of securing a loan. We are also concerned with understanding the impact on agricultural sector of the large number of micro-finance institutions...

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Agriculture in Portugal: linkages with industry and services

Gaspar, Joao; Pina, Gilson; Simoes, Marta - In: Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - … 95 (2014) 4, pp. 437-471

We investigate the links between agriculture and non-agricultural sectors in Portugal by assessing the existence of long-run relationships and causality among the three main sectors of activity in terms of value added and labour productivity using a VAR model for the period 1970-2006....

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