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Trading with the environment : ecology, economics, institutions and policy

Andersson, Thomas; Folke, Carl; Nyström, Stefan - 1995

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Special section: Identifying critical natural capital

Ekins, Paul (contributor); Folke, Carl (contributor); … - 2003

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Rights to nature : ecological, economic, cultural, and political principles of institutions for the environment

Hanna, Susan S. (ed.); Folke, Carl (contributor); … - 1996

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Biodiversity loss : economic and ecological issues

Perrings, Charles (contributor); … - 1997 - Reprinted

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Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services

Worm, Boris; Barbier, Edward B.; Beaumont, Nicola; … - 2014

Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations and species, with largely unknown consequences. We analyzed local experiments, long-term regional time series, and global fisheries data to test how biodiversity loss affects marine ecosystem services across...

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Global skill partnerships : a proposal for technical training in a mobile world

Clemens, Michael A. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-18

Skilled workers emigrate from developing countries in rising numbers, raising fears of a drain on the human and financial resources of the countries they leave. This paper critiques existing policy proposals to address the development effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of...

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Global mobility and the threat of pandemics: evidence from three centuries

Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020

Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...

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New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad

Clemens, Michael A. - 2007

the extent of African health workers' international movements. We use destination-country census data to estimate the …-born physicians in the world, and about one tenth of African-born professional nurses. The fraction of health professionals abroad …

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Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration

Clemens, Michael A. - 2007

raise sending-country and global welfare. This study uses a new database of health worker emigration from Africa to test … whether exogenous decreases in emigration raise the number of domestic health professionals, increase the mass availability of … basic primary care, or improve a range of public health outcomes. It identifies the effect through two separate natural …

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A New Database of Health Professional Emigration from Africa

Clemens, Michael A.; Pettersson Gelander, Gunilla - 2013

The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain. But empirical research on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where have they settled? To...

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