Energy efficiency improvement is considered to be a desirable response to growing climate change and security of energy supply concerns. This paper studies the impacts of a varied set of macro-level market-oriented reforms on economy wide measure of energy efficiency across a group of transition...

This paper provides a profit-maximizing modelwith vessel-level dolphin mortality limits forpurse seiners harvesting tunas in the easterntropical Pacific Ocean. The model analyticallyderives the shadow price (estimated economicvalue) for dolphin mortality, the fishing-fleetsize, and the annual...

Globalisation or the international integration of production and distribution has accelerated over the past two decades. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) or the transnational corporations (TNC) through foreign direct investment (FDI) have played a key role in the globalisation process. This...

The paper reviews some important macroeconomic tensions resulting from the phenomenon of financial integration. These macroeconomic tensions are illustrated using Australian perspectives. The deregulation of the Australian financial markets has increased capital mobility and profoundly changed...

The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India. By Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 289. £50 and £16.95. ISBN 0 521 55362 8 and 55671 6 Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with...

Globalisation has become extremely intense since the earlier seventies. Given that the world economy is getting dose to a single market, a more efficient outcome via globalisation can be expected. However, globalisation may also have negative effects. We illustrate our findings through a simple...

Energy efficiency improvement is a desirable response to growing climate change and security of energy supply concerns. This article studies the impacts of a varied set of macro-level market-oriented reforms as well as structural change on economy-wide measure of energy efficiency across a group...