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Climate change, water scarcity in agriculture and the economy-wide impacts in a CGE framework
Ponce, Roberto; Parrado, Ramiro; Stehr, Alejandra; … - 2016
This paper analyzes the economic impacts of changes in water availability due to climate change. We develop a new … modeling approach as an alternative to include water as a production factor within a global CGE model. We tailor the structure … agricultural sector. In order to reach this objective, a new database has been built to explicitly consider water endowments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591854
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The cost of climate stabilization in Southeast Asia, a joint assessment with dynamic optimization and CGE models
Bosello, Francesco; Marangoni, Giacomo; Orecchia, Carlo; … - 2016
Southeast Asia is at a time one of the most vulnerable region to the impacts of a changing climate, with millions of its inhabitants still trapped in extreme poverty without access to energy and employed in climate-sensitive sectors, and, potentially, one of the world’s biggest contributors to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591805
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Producer Beliefs and Conservation : The Impact of Perceived Water Scarcity on Irrigation Technology Adoption
Blumberg, Joey; Goemans, Chris; Manning, Dale - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … use publicly available data on water rights and irrigated cropland to empirically identify the impact of changing beliefs … about water availability on conservation decisions. We leverage a natural experiment in Colorado in which a period of severe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210108
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Climate adaptation policies and infant health: evidence from a water policy in Brazil
Mata, Daniel da; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor; … - 2021
that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517152
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Climate Change, Water Scarcity in Agriculture and the Economy-Wide Impacts in a CGE Framework
Ponce, Roberto - 2017
This paper analyzes the economic impacts of changes in water availability due to climate change. We develop a new … modeling approach as an alternative to include water as a production factor within a global CGE model. We tailor the structure … agricultural sector. In order to reach this objective, a new database has been built to explicitly consider water endowments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966906
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Fertilizer Subsidy Policies in Burkina Faso : A Comparison of Impacts by Funding Mechanism Using a Computable General Equilibrium Model
Sawadogo, Boureima; Maisonnave, Hélène - 2021
Since 2008, Burkina Faso has been committed to an extensive program ofspending on subsidies for agricultural inputs and equipment to increaseagricultural productivity and reduce poverty. However, the country has limitedfiscal space. This study uses a computable general equilibrium model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314645
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Estimating the Effect of Easements on Agricultural Production
Karwowski, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
US crops face higher losses as growing season temperatures rise and destructive disasters become commonplace. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) easement programs offer an adaptation strategy to improve agricultural resilience. Easements impact agricultural production directly by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334375
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Chapter 24 CGE Modeling of Environmental Policy and Resource Management
Bergman, Lars - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1273-1306). 2005
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling is an attempt to use general equilibrium theory as a tool for analysis of resource allocation and income distribution issues in market economies. Since the beginning of the 1990s, CGE modeling has been widely used for analysis of environmental policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023908
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The impact of public expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth and income distribution in Peru
Baca Campodónico, Jorge F.; Peschiera Cassinelli, Jorge R. - 2014
The Peruvian economy has exhibited remarkable growth in the past 20 years. Good tax and monetary policies, along with comprehensive structural adjustment, which has attracted substantial foreign investment, are regarded as the pillars of this success. Notwithstanding the advances experienced on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285046
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Gaming, states and tax revenues : the tortoise or the hare : a CGE comparative assessment of casino resorts and racinos
Lahr, Michael L.; Alvarez, Maria - 2013
State tax revenues from casinos as a share of total state gaming revenues generally correlate well with the year of legalization. Theoretically speaking, heavy tax rates should dampen growth of the casino revenues in states that adopt them. Indeed, states with lower tax rates tend to have larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616678