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The role of the Eastern member states in the European Union's energy and climate policy
Olgun, Cenk - 2017
The European Union has been prizing itself for being the global leader in terms of climate change; its triptych approach and the 20-20-20 targets were certainly an enviable effort prior to the United Nations Convention. However, with the economic crisis having left its mark, there has been a...
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El Niño and Indian droughts: A scoping exercise
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014
Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...
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The Circular City and the Building Sector
Franz, Gianfranco - 2020
The essay deals with the issue of urban circularity understood as a subset of the Circular Economy paradigm, highlighting potential and limits of an emerging new model spreading on a global scale. The critical reasoning starts from a very recent production of institutional documents and the...
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Should we sustain? And if so, sustain what? Consumption or the quality of life?
Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012
Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our … approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human … substituting consumption for the quality of life. Our sustainability results carry over. As it should be expected, optimal …
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Immigration amnesty and immigrant's earnings
Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006
We review the role immigration amnesties have played in US immigration policy, placing them in the context of similar programs embarked upon by other nations. The theory of amnesties suggests rent-seeking, bargaining, and costs as reasons for a country offering an amnesty, often in conjunction...
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The why, when and how of immigration amnesties
Epstein, Gil S.; Weiss, Avi - 2009
This paper presents some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. Complementing studies by Chau (2001, 2003), Karlson and Katz (2003) and Gang and Yun (2006), we consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border...
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Public preferences for redistributive policies in Israel
Elmelec, Yuval - 2014
This paper contributes to the literature on inequality and welfare policy by studying public support for redistributive policies in Israel, a society with an extreme level of socioeconomic inequality. Drawing on the relevant literature and taking into consideration the distinct demographic...
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A Theory of Immigration Amnesties
Epstein, Gil S.; Weiss, Avi - 2001
This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and...
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Natural resources, economic growth and geography
González-Val, Rafael; Pueyo, Fernando - 2018
In this paper we discuss the relationship between economic growth and natural resources at a global level, taking into account geography. With this aim, our model integrates elements of the theories of endogenous growth, natural resources and new economic geography. We find that an increase in...
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Adoption Gaps of Environmental Adaptation Technologies with Public Effects
Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone; Galdi, Giulio; … - 2019
The global nature of the climatic challenge requires a high level of cooperation among agents, especially since most of the related coping strategies produce some kind of externalities toward others. Whether they are positive or negative, the presence of externalities may lead the system towards...
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