Author: Indiana University, Bloomington. Law LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Guide to the Investment Regimes of the APEC Member Economies
Author: Publisher: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ISBN:
Category : Investments
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Indigenous World 2005
Author: Diana VindingPublisher: IWGIA
ISBN: 8791563054
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
"The Indigenous World 2005 gives an overview of crucial developments in 2004 that have impacted on the indigenous peoples of the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Climate Change 2014
Author: Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climatPublisher:
ISBN: 9789291691432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
American Domestic Priorities
Author: John M. QuigleyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Cost of Environmental Degradation
Author: Lelia CroitoruPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821383965
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
How much is a cleaner environment worth? For policy makers, that question used to go largely unanswered. Many economic activities cause environmental degradation, entailing real costs to the economy and to people's welfare. Knowing the extent of these costs is crucial for identifying a country's main environmental priorities and allocating appropriate funds for environmental protection. Over the past decade, the World Bank has initiated a systematic effort to measure the costs of environmental degradation in the Middle East and North Africa, shedding new light on their magnitude and on the need for policy changes. In many cases, these costs were found to be surprisingly large. 'The Cost of Environmental Degradation: Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa' brings together the best case studies of this program and summarizes their policy impacts at the national and regional levels. The case studies quantify monetarily the annual damage due to environmental degradation and express these estimates as percentages of the countries' gross domestic product. The studies use the most recent environmental valuation methods to estimate the economic costs resulting from air pollution, water degradation, deforestation, and land degradation. Uniquely, the book dedicates a case study to value the costs of environmental degradation resulting from an oil spill and demolition waste in times of conflict. The studies then illuminate the concrete implications on policy, investments, and institutions for the respective nations. This book will be of interest to policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, and academic and research institutions.
Chile's Regional Arrangements and the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
Author: Glenn W. HarrisonPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : ALCA
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
July 2001 - Among Chile's bilateral regional agreements, only Chile's agreements with "Northern" partners provide enough market access to offset the costs to Chile of trade diversion. Because of preferential market access, however, "additive regionalism" is likely to provide Chile with far more gains than the static welfare gains from unilateral free trade. At least one partner country loses from each of the regional trade agreements considered in this study, and excluded countries always lose. The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) produces gains for almost all the member countries, but the European Union is a big loser. Countries of the Americas gain more in aggregate from global free trade than from the FTAA. Using a multisector, multicountry, computable general equilibrium model, Harrison, Rutherford, and Tarr examine Chile's strategy of negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with all of its significant trading partners (referring to this policy as additive regionalism). They also evaluate the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) and global free trade. Among Chile's bilateral regional agreements, only Chile's agreements with "Northern" partners provide enough market access to offset the costs to Chile of trade diversion. Because of preferential market access, however, additive regionalism is likely to provide Chile with many times as many gains as the static welfare gains from unilateral free trade. Harrison, Rutherford, and Tarr find that at least one partner country loses from each of the regional trade agreements they consider, and excluded countries as a group always lose. They estimate that the FTAA produces large welfare gains for the members, with the European Union being the big loser. Gains to the world from global free trade are estimated to be at least 36 times greater than gains from the FTAA. Even countries of the Americas in aggregate gain more from global free trade than from the FTAA. This paper--a product of Trade, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to examine the impact of regional trade arrangements on development and poverty reduction. David Tarr may be contacted at [email protected].
Global Value Chains in a Postcrisis World
Author: Olivier CattaneoPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821384996
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The book looks to address the following questions in a post-crisis world: How have lead firms responded to the crisis? Have they changed their traditional supply chain strategy and relocated and/or outsourced part of their production? How will those changes affect developing countries? What should be the policy responses to these changes?
Santa Fe National Forest Plan
Author: Industrial Sector Natural Gas Use
Author: U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement: Potential Economywide and Selected Sectoral Effects, Inv. TA2104-15
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1457820250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description