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Replicating Microfinance in the United States: Opportunities and Challenges

Schreiner, Mark; Morduch, Jonathan - EconWPA - 2001

In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance in the United States? This paper attempts to...

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Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement. Keine Nachhaltigkeit ohne ökonomischen Erfolg. Kein ökonomischer Erfolg ohne Nachhaltigkeit

Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004

Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert. Hierbei bezieht sie erstmals zwei unterschiedliche, sich ergänzende Bewertungsverfahren ein: Sie nimmt erstens das Konzept des Environmental Shareholder Value auf und...

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Intergenerational Transfers, Lifetime Welfare and Resource Preservation

Valente, Simone - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies the welfare properties of distortionary transfers in a life-cycle growth model where natural capital is private property. The main result is that, under credible pre-commitment, each newborn generation prefers positive taxes-subsidies to laissez-faire conditions when the...

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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA"

Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001

As the barriers to hemispheric trade and integration are lowered, it will be asked whether we will we hear the "giant sucking sound" of poorer nations luring U.S. and Canadian firms south to take advantage of low wages and lax environmental regulations? Or, will Latin American nations passively...

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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.

Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …

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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003

of sustainability while establishing a consistent system of units for both the solar flux and economic transformation … processes. Conditions for a virtuous cycle dynamic in relation to sustainability is expressed, adhering to non …

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Modelo para valorar la atribución de Sustentabilidad

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2004

The identification is made of those conditions by which it is possible to generate synergy or mutually enforcing relations between economic development and environment conservation with the perspective of a systems entropy flow limits. Monetary and fiscal policies are the framework of structural...

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U-shaped Paths of Consumption and Physical Capital in Lucas-type Growth Models

Nili, Farhad - EconWPA - 2002

This paper considers transitional dynamics of consumption and physical capital in Lucas-type growth models. We find that when the ratio of physical to human capital is sufficiently high, it is optimal for both consumption and physical capital to fall for a finite period and then rise along their...

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"Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy."

Ackerman, Frank; Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001

Market based policies are fast becoming the recommended policy panacea for all the world’s environmental problems. Implicit in such recommendations is the theory that free markets, adjusted for externalities, can always create an “efficient” allocation of society’s resources. As a...

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Economic Analysis of Rural Land Administration Projects

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

As part of its efforts to improve the rural economies of its client countries, the World Bank is supporting programs to strengthen land administration and undertake land reform. Land administration projects can include a variety of activities. Usually, the most expensive and that which is most...

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