The literature on waste recycling neglects the potential effects that this process can have at the aggregate level, although there are positive externalities which have not emerged in the microeconomic analysis of this phenomenon. This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of the waste...

This paper examines, with the help of the available literature on North-South models, the paradoxical economic performances within Latin America and the role of China's phenomenal recent growth in it, which turn the Prebisch-Singer thesis upside down: the terms of trade are moving in favor of...

In this chapter, we try to disentangle the theoretical background for assessing the macroeconomic impacts of raw material efficiency strategies. We concentrate our discussion on a case study of copper for Germany and show the reasoning behind the implementation in a macroeconomic assessment...

Rohstoffe stehen am Beginn einer weit verzweigten Wertschöpfungskette und sind auch in Zeiten wachsender Globalisierung unabdingbare Voraussetzung für die Funktionsfähigkeit bzw. die langfristigen Entwicklungs- und Wachstumsmöglichkeiten einer Volkswirtschaft. Die Studie gibt einen Einblick...