Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor…

This article analyses the views of South African investment organizations about the likelihood of commodification of environmental risks in their investment decision-making processes. It is based on…

This report presents EfD South Africa, its members and work during 2010. For a free hardcopy, please send an email to: info@efdinitiative.org The South African node of the Environment for Development…

This paper describes how management and information failures can retard transitions from the traditional use of biomass fuel by low income rural consumers and micro-producers. In general,societies…

In this book chapter, the authors argue that contrary to the general view shared among social science scientists until the eighties, resource wealth seems actually to impede the economic performance…

This paper describes the development and rationale of a holistic and transparent approach for evaluating the ecological, social and economic trade-offs in water allocation in order to set the…

This paper uses empirical data on the crustacean and linefish fisheries to estimate the potential impacts of changes in freshwater flows on the industry, using a modelling approach.

The paper shows that unstructured lending from international credit markets can create incentives to loot the country; and an enhanced likelihood of looting causes greater political instability, and…

The paper gives guidance on the ways of reducing pollution in a township settlement. The average levels of PM10 pollutants in Khayelitsha, a poor informal settlement near Cape Town in South Africa…

The Environment for Development initiative started in 2007 and this is the report for the first three-year period. EfD is an initiative to support environmental economics capacity to conduct research…