South Africa is a high carbon emitting nation with fossil fuels accounting for more than 90% of the country?s primary energy needs. As a rapidly developing country there is increasing pressure from international partners for the country to demonstrate its commitment to climate change...

Las iniciativas de fijación de precios del carbono, diseñadas para incrementar los precios relativos de los bienes y servicios intensivos en gases de efecto invernadero, no solo podrían incidir en la inflación del IPC, sino también en su volatilidad. La literatura empírica ha encontrado,...

Los escenarios de mitigación climática son una herramienta esencial para analizar las implicaciones macroeconómicas y financieras del cambio climático (riesgo físico), y cómo podría desarrollarse la transición hacia una economía baja en carbono (riesgo de transición). La Red para la...

Utilizando el modelo dinámico de equilibrio general multisectorial medioambiental de tres regiones EMuSe, encontramos que una tarificación del carbono limitada a Alemania o España solo conduce a un efecto negativo permanente sobre la producción en estas economías. La reducción de emisiones...

The purpose of the paper is to investigate how Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS) can be used to fund infrastructure development in developing countries. This paper also presents a case study on how ABS has been used to fund infrastructure in Australia and points out the lessons that developing...

This paper first reviews major recent works broadly dedicated to the role innovation plays in development and discusses possible reasons for the marginal role accorded low-income countries. It then reports insights from a systematic review of the literature since the late 1990s that implicitly...

Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health, and sustainability issues. A critical but underinvestigated question for planning and allocating resources toward the MDGs is how interventions related to one MDG might affect...

Diese Dissertation basiert auf einer auf den Menschen bezogenen, multidimensionalen Betrachtung von Entwicklung. Sie soll empirisch Übereinstimmungen und Determinanten der Gesundheit von Kindern in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen analysieren. Der erste Essay – mit verfasst von...

The paper discusses the meaning and measurement of pro-poor growth and also reviews evidence of pro-poor growth (or the lack of it) in a large cross-section of countries and time periods. The emerging story is that many episodes of growth are not pro-poor and also that although economic reforms...

This course treats public-sector policies, programs, and projects that attempt to reduce poverty and unemployment in developing countries through directly income-generating activities and employment. Topics covered are (1) employment and local economic development, particularly as related to the...