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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 2

Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - 2014

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 1

Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - 2014

This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398594

Cardiovascular Disease Mortality and Non-Particulate Air Pollution: Evidence from the 20th Century

Forshaw, Rachel; Kharadi, Natalya; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2023

Air pollution is a global public health threat, responsible for more deaths annually than conventional lifestyle risk factors. While the link between particulate pollution and cardiovascular disease is well-established, evidence for gaseous pollutants remains limited. This study estimates the...

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Resource Dependence, Recycling, and Trade

Egger, Peter H.; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2023

Recycling waste from used goods can substitute for scarce raw materials and reduce resource dependence. This paper … presents a model of waste collection, recycling and final goods production using raw and recycled materials. Non-recycled waste … must be safely stored by landfill to avoid environmental damage. The costs of waste disposal create externalities. An …

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Kurz zum Klima: Neues aus den Bereichen Energie, Klima und Umwelt

Lippelt, Jana; Gronwald, Marc - In: ifo Schnelldienst 65 (2012) 21, pp. 45-49

Die Rubrik »Kurz zum Klima« erscheint nun bereits seit drei Jahren mit nahezu 60 Ausgaben. Dieser Beitrag greift drei Themen aus den Bereichen Energie-, Klima- und Umweltpolitik – das Reserven-Produktions-Verhältnis, die weltweite CO2-Reduktion und das Problem der Überfischung – erneut...

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Impact of Pollution from Coal on the Anemic Status of Children and Women: Evidence from India

Datt, Gaurav; Maitra, Pushkar; Menon, Nidhiya; Ray, Ranjan - 2020

Economic growth in emerging market economies has come hand-in-hand with growing demand for energy, with many of them meeting this higher demand by increased use of coal to fuel electricity generation. This paper examines the impact of pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic...

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New directions of trade for the agri-food industry: A disaggregated approach for different income countries, 1963 - 2000

Serrano, Raúl; Pinilla Navarro, Vicente - In: Latin American Economic Review 23 (2014) 1, pp. 1-22

The principal objective of the present study is to explain the changes in the direction of agri-food trade flows during the second half of the twentieth century. Since the end of the Second World War, trade has tended to be concentrated among developed countries, breaking the pattern of...

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Productivity, Mortality, and Technology in European and US Coal Mining, 1800-1913

Silvestre, Javier - 2021

European coal production underwent a period of dramatic increase from the early nineteenth century to 1913. A consensus exists, however, for a depiction of the coal industry as, to a high degree, technologically stagnant throughout the long nineteenth century. Macro-inventions, or general...

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Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics: A critical appraisal

McLaughlin, Eoin; Ducoing, Cristián; Hanley, Nick - 2024

Environment Programme - to estimating changes in wealth. Our paper reveals important inconsistencies in how these organisations …

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Behind copper prices: a historical perspective 1850-1950

Badia-Miró, Marc; Carreras-Marín, Anna; Ducoing, Cristián - 2019

Commodity prices and their secular trends are at the core of many different development theories, particularly relevant for the Latin American region, like the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, the natural resource curse theory or the somehow malthusian scarcity prediction. In this article we review...

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