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The impact of the green energy infrastructure on firm productivity: Evidence from the three gorges project in the People's Republic of China

Cheng, Dong; Shi, Xunpeng; Yu, Jian - 2020

Despite the dominant role of hydropower in the global power generation mix and the popularity of studying the productivity impact of infrastructure investment, there is a lack of research regarding the impact of hydropower projects on firm productivity. Such a positive impact could promote a...

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Implementing Sustainable Development Goals within the COVID-19 pandemic future challenges for the 2030 Agenda

Żbikowska, Anna Rydz - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 4, pp. 135-160

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim of this article is to present the current status of SDG implementation with … reference to the 2030 Agenda. Furthermore, it will examine the impact of COVID-19 on the progress of SDGs on a global scale … Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs), in terms of the implementation of SDGs. The study is limited to the context of …

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Foreign aid, green cities and buildings

Kablan, Sandrine - 2013

This paper attempts, first, to assess foreign aid effectiveness in fostering green city procedures in developing countries. For this purpose, we rely on the following aid effectiveness criteria: national ownership; harmonization; alignment and mutual accountability; and results management. Our...

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The excluded poor: How targeting has left out the poor in peripheral cities in the Philippines

Canares, Michael P. - 2010

Constrained by resource limitations and challenged by the increasing incidence of poverty in the country, the Philippine government embarked on an anti-poverty programme that sought to identify where the poorest people were, what were their specific needs, and how government and other...

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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too large and too few in number in uncoordinated...

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Pollution and the efficiency of urban growth

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2008

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of production. Production exhibits increasing returns to scale on aggregate. Urban environmental pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic...

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Regional and sector environmental efficiency empirical evidence from structural shift-share analysis of NAMEA data

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2009

This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...

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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

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Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Development of Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIS) for an Urban Setup

Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - 2011

Bruntland Commission's report led to popularization of notion of sustainability and a boom in the development of sustainable development indicators (SDIs). Numerous efforts have been made worldwide in constructing SDIs at global, national and local scales, but India has been lacking in such...

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Amenity Conflicts between Urban Port Facilities and Communities in Australia

Keller, Gary F. - 2013

Report Cards from 1999-2010 strongly indicates that a direct correlation exists between the economic utility and efficient …

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