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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
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This paper provides a cross-country review of progress towards green growth in selected emerging market economies that are members or partners of the OECD. It draws on the country studies conducted within the OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia,...
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Environmental policy affects the distribution of market shares if intermediate goods are differentiated in pollution intensity. When innovations are environmental friendly, a tax on emissions skews demand towards new goods, which are the most productive. In this case along a balanced growth path...
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the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …
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We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our … taxation on health. We also demonstrate that rising abatement expenditures as a way of tightening the environmental policy … would be better for health than increasing environmental tax in the presence of market labor imperfections. …
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environment and health problems. The issue of environment and health is characterised by multi-causality with different strengths … of association. This means that the links between exposures and their health consequences depend on the environmental …
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The main purpose of this document is to present current knowledge about the health effects of noise. The emphasis is … first of all to provide end users with practical and validated tools to calculate health impacts of noise in all kinds of … Health and Environment departments and professional organisations. No full bibliography is provided but the key statements …
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