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Environmental project evaluation in developing countries: Valuing the environment as input
Barbier, Edward B. - 1998
An important evaluation problem in developing countries is assessing the value and optimal use of environmental resources as inputs into production. This is a key methodology required for many general evaluation approaches, e.g. ensuring the most efficient use of a resource requires...
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Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities
Li, Jun - 2013
Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...
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Firms’ Sustainable Practice Research in Developing Countries : Mapping the Cited Literature by Bibliometric Analysis Approach
Nordin, Norfarah; Samsudin, Mohd Ali; A.K, Siti-Nabiha; … - 2021
This paper reports a review on firms sustainable practice (SP) using Bibliometric analysis approach. The objectives of this review are to discuss on the key research focus of SP literature in developing countries based on highly cited (authors, countries, articles and journals) and to determine...
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Telecommunications in Small Island Developing States
Sutherland, Ewan - 2010
SIDS are a diverse group of nations, which have struggled to ensure a place in the information society, because of the high cost of international links and the difficulties of achieving competition which continental countries take for granted. Market entry is problematic for lack of economies of...
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Importing Inputs for Climate Change Mitigation : The Case of Agricultural Productivity
García-Verdú, Rodrigo - 2019
This paper estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015 and aims to understand sources of cross-country variations in agricultural TFP levels and its growth rates. Two factors affecting agricultural TFP are analyzed in detail - imported...
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Regional Trade Agreements Versus Global Trade Liberalisation : Implications for a Small Island Developing State
Asafu-Adjaye, John; Mahadevan, Renuka - 2007
This study undertakes an empirical investigation of the macroeconomic and sectoral impacts of two forms of regional trade agreements vis-à-vis global trade liberalisation on a small island country, using Fiji as a case study. In order to capture the feed-back effects of such a complex set of...
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Nepal’s Graduation from Least Developed Country to Developing Country by 2026 : Challenges for Handicraft Sector MSMEs
Sthapit, PhD, Prof. Arhan - 2022
Nepal is now in the process of graduating from Least Developed Country (LDC) to Developing Country (DC), as Nepal reportedly met the thresholds for Human Assets Index (HAI), and Economic and Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI), the two of the three criteria for graduation, although its...
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Sustainability Disclosure on Environmental Reporting : A Review of Literature in Developing Countries
Alhaj, Alhassan - 2020
sustainability accounting disclosure in developing countries. A number of theoretical frameworks have been developed to provide a … utilized in most studies. According to this theory, firms have to provide sustainability and environmental disclosure due to … studies are still very limited. This study also provides recommendations and direction for future research on sustainability …
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Firm performance and trade with low-income countries : Evidence from China
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
"Do firms in developing countries shift trade towards developed economies as a result of high economic growth? The matched customs-manufacturing firm data used in this study confront this hypothesized link with empirical evidence. Our analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share...
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Debt, poverty and resource management in a rural smallholder economy
Barbier, Edward B.; López, Ramón - 1998
This paper explores the link between poverty and resource allocation, including the management of natural resources, by chronically indebted rural smallholders in developing countries. The paper proposes a formal intertemporal model of a credit constrained farm household that can invest in...
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