6 Articles found
Cambridge University Articles
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Can NNP be used for welfare comparisons?
This paper contains a critical assessment of the claim that NNP can be used for welfare comparisons. The analysis assumes that national accounts are comprehensive (in particular ‘greened’ by taking into account environmental amenities and natural ...
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Corruption, the resource curse and genuine saving
Genuine saving is a measure of net investment in produced, natural and human capital. It is a necessary condition for weak sustainable development that genuine saving not be persistently negative. However, according to data provided by the World ...
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Natural resource use conflict: gold mining in tropical rainforest in Ghana
Gold is frequently mined in rainforests that can provide either gold or forest benefits, but not both. This conflict in resource use occurs in Ghana, a developing country in the tropics where the capital needed formining is obtained from foreign ...
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Environmental taxation in a dualistic economy
In the framework of the Harris–Todaro model we introduce a production–production externality and assume that the activity in the urban sector negatively affects (pollutes) the rural sector. As a means of reducing pollution a tax is imposed on the ...
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The effect of environmental regulations: a restricted cost function for Korean manufacturing industries
Environmental conservation requires society to consider the trade-off between allocating resources to productive activities and pollution control activities. Therefore, it is informative to measure the effect of environmental regulations on firms’ ...
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Optimization model for integrated municipal solid waste management in Mumbai, India
Mumbai, the largest metropolitan city in India, generated 6,256 tons of waste per day in 2001. It is the responsibility of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) to provide Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management services; however, the ...