A cross-country analysis of factors affecting the levels of the energy intensity of production in the countries with both the market and the transitional economies is provided. Climatic conditions, variables of institutional environment, production structure variations and evaluations of...

We propose a new time series model aimed at forecasting crude oil prices. The proposed specification is an unobserved components model with an asymmetric cyclical component. The asymmetric cycle is defined as a sine-cosine wave where the frequency of the cycle depends on past oil price...

The Congo region is one of the best examples of the negative consequences of world market integration (and hence globalization) in the world. Today?s Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is an almost ?perfectly? failing state ? although not necessarily with respect to a state?s function as a...

El empoderamiento es fundamental en la consecución del desarrollo humano sustentable y por tanto, su medición y análisis son imperantes en la evaluación de los programas de política pública enfocados al fomento de este tipo de desarrollo. La presente investigación analiza el...

This paper presents a theoretical model to investigate the potential environmental consequences of weather index based insurance, a tool for mitigating weather risk that is gaining momentum in developing countries. We model potential effects of index insurance for pastoralists on animal stocking...

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...

This paper presents an outline of rationale and theory of the MuSIASEM scheme (Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism). First, three points of the rationale behind our MuSIASEM scheme are discussed: (i) endosomatic and exosomatic metabolism in relation to...

Economic development goes hand in hand with an increase in the consumption of natural resources. Some analysts use material flows to describe such relationship [Eurostat 2001, Weisz et al., 2006], or exergy [Ayres et al., 2003]. Instead this paper will use a characterisation of the exosomatic...

In many developing countries a lack of property rights leads to unsustainable harvests of traditionally exploited renewable resources. Product and labor market failure due to trans-action costs can either exacerbate or offset this overexploitation. Combining a model of open access fisheries...