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through trade liberalization policies. However, this integration has profoundly affected the environment, particularly in …
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Standing on the broken ground of resource extraction settings, the state is sometimes like a chimera: its appearance and intentions are misleading and, for some actors, it is unknowable and incomprehensible. It may be easily mistaken for someone or something else, like a mining company, for...
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markets behind the relationship between exports and pollution. In this paper we argue that because consumers in high … environment are not high. Using a panel of firm-level data from Chile we find support to this hypothesis. A 10 percentage point … increase in the share of exports to high-income countries is associated with a reduction in CO2 pollution intensity of about 16 …
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Major oil and gas discoveries are often associated with excitement and jubilation among citizens and government officials. But the extent to which discoveries substantially alter citizen expectations about economic conditions in a country remains an open question. The paper combines...
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The study investigates the impact of trade openness on pollution in China by applying wavelet-coherence analysis, phase … openness and pollutant variables. The results indicate that trade openness has increased pollution in China especially after … 2001 when China became member of WTO. It suggests that "pollution haven hypothesis" exists in China. These results imply …
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One of the significant challenges to achieveing the Green Supply Chain Management objectives is the ecological footprint associated with several logistics operations. In this study, we examine the impact of countries' logistics performance on environmental quality. For this purpose, the study...
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To quantify the growth in GHG emissions related to international trade, we build an extensive database for export-related production and transportation GHG emissions covering 189 countries and 10 sectors from 1990 to 2014. We employ this database to quantify the contribution of production and...
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This study investigates the impact of trade and transport services on the environment in Africa. Secondary data for 21 … environmental degradation in Africa. The study concludes a mixed effect of trade and transport services on the environment in Africa … environment goal and this can be done by reviewing trade policy to encourage inflow of improved technology into the economies. …
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the validity of the EKC theory. More importantly, the outcomes of the indirect channels demonstrate that financial … development increases energy usage's role in causing pollution while attenuating the detrimental impacts of economic growth, trade … requirement for the basis of the pollution haven hypothesis (PHH), which we examine using trade openness and foreign direct …
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Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously flawed. This paper proposes two avenues for...
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