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Constructing sustainable supply chain under double environmental medium regulations

Ji, Guojun; Gunasekaran, Angappa; Yang, Guangyong - In: International Journal of Production Economics 147 (2014) PB, pp. 211-219

With increasing pollution of ecological environment and global warming, more and more countries and governments have …

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Dominican Republic Environmental and Social Safeguards Issues Paper: Upstreaming Environmental and Social Risk Management

Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

The purpose of this technical note is to identify key environment and safeguard-related risks and opportunities that should be taken into account in the new Country Strategy for the Dominican Republic (DR) as required by the IDB's Environment and Safeguard Policy approved in January 2006....

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Green Taxes and Climate Change: Theory and Reality

Milne, Janet E. - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 4, pp. 8-12

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Alternative Forms of Mineral Taxation, Market Failure and the Environment

Muzondo, Timothy R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

This paper examines the environmental effects of mineral taxes in a framework that recognizes the importance of rates and cumulative externalities and proposes an appropriate corrective tax. It concludes that mineral resources taxation should combine neutral taxes with a dynamic Pigovian type...

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Efficiency Costs of Meeting Industry-Distributional Constraints under Environmental Permits and Taxes

Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg; Goulder, L.H.; Gurney, D.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

Many pollution-related industries wield strong political influence and can e.ectively veto policy initiatives that … permits or by exempting some inframarginal emissions from a pollution tax.However, such policies compel the government to … this constraint diminishes relative to the other e.ciency costs of pollution-control.We also calculate the compensation …

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Time inconsistency in environmental policy : Tax earmarking as a commitment solution

Marsiliani, L.; Renstrom, T.I. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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Are Environmental Taxes Affected by Legislatures' Ideological Positions?

Miller, Sebastian; Vela, Mauricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Environmental taxes have been discussed as one of the main mechanisms to deal with environmental problems. Nonetheless, instruments of this type have rarely been implemented, and the adoption of new or higher environmental taxes has faced resistance in some countries. The purpose of this work is...

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Liquid and Gaseous Fossil Fuel Power Plant Guidelines: An Approach to Reconciling the Financing of Fossil Fuel Power Plants with Climate Change Objectives

Suding, Paul Hugo; Boulet, Emmanuel; Breisinger, Milena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

The present guidelines outline the criteria for eligibility and aim to provide clear and quantitative minimum performance criteria (MPC) deemed necessary for the IDB to support fossil fuel power plant projects. In addition, they provide guidance on assessing and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)...

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Determinants of Environmental Performance in the Brazilian Industrial Sector

Motta, Ronaldo Seroa da - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

recommend flexible instruments on pollution control that capture the firm¿s differentials in characteristics and compliance …

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Is Disaster Risk Reduction Spending Driven by the Occurrence of Natural Disasters? Evidence from Peru

Miller, Sebastian; Vela, Mauricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This paper studies the allocation of total disaster risk reduction public spending among regions in Peru. The main objective of this work is to identify the main determinants of the distribution of these resources, and for this purpose an index of historical physical impacts of natural...

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