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This is a chapter in a book entitled "Fuel Tax and the Poor: The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy" edited by Thomas Sterner, 2011. Some taxes are…
15 December 2011 | Book Chapter | EthiopiaThe Costa Rican experience: extreme weather events partially explain permanent internal migration as an adaptive measure. A new body of evidence has emerged suggesting that climate is increasing…
1 December 2011 | Research Brief | Central AmericaInitiatives certifying that producers of goods and services adhere to defined environmental and social-welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, these initiatives…
9 November 2011 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaIn this paper we use laboratory experiments to test the theoretical predictions derived by Villegas-Palacio and Coria (2010) about the effects of the interaction between technology adoption and…
6 November 2011 | Discussion Paper | Central America, SwedenThis paper analyses the underlying factors affecting people‘s satisfaction with drinking water provided by community-based organizations in rural Costa Rica. These organizations provide water to more…
5 November 2011 | EfD Discussion Paper | Central AmericaThis case study looks at the impacts of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity’s Toro 3 hydroelectric project and its affects on the Recreo Verde tourism center in San Carlos, Costa Rica. Choice…
24 October 2011 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaThis study undertook an assessment and gap analysis of the institutional arrangements for improved land and water management in the Tana and Beles Sub-basins highlands of the Blue Nile Basin. We…
24 October 2011 | Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaWhether government has the political will and capacity to control pollution is crucial for environmental outcomes. A vast country such as China, with centralized policymaking but idiosyncratic local…
21 October 2011 | Discussion Paper | ChinaThe paper tested for the relationship between three different measures of efficiency and the degree of openness to trade for a sample of countries from Latin America and the Caribbean plus the Unites…
26 September 2011 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaPublic disclosure programs that collect and disseminate information about firms’ environmental performance are increasingly popular in both developed and developing countries. Yet little is known…
9 September 2011 | Peer Reviewed |