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Das, Dilip K - 1999

Financial globalisation during the 1990s impinged upon world savings and investment flows, macroeconomic developments, challenges confronting policy makers, international investors and financial market regulators. Experiences of the last two decades reveal that international financial markets...

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Outlook and challenges to coal in Asia: 1994--2015

Johnson, C.J.; Li, B. - 2009

The two key threats to coal`s long term dominance in Asia are: (1) its uneven distribution of reserves and lack of … deterioration of the environment in Asia for another one to two decades. China will remain the largest polluter in Asia, but it …`s believed it will become Asia`s largest user of emissions control technology by 2015. The authors have subjectively weighed the …

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Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise - Teil II : Präsentationen

Voß, Stefan; Müller, Alfred - 2011

Präsentationen zu <a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus-3379">Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise mit …

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11.471 Targeting the Poor: Small Firms, Workers, and Local Economic Development, Fall 2004

Tendler, Judith - 2004

Covers conditions under which public-sector policies, programs, and projects succeed in enhancing the economic activities of poorer groups and micro-regions in developing countries. Topics include local economic development; small enterprises; various forms of collective action; labor and worker...

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Conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps in India and Brazil

Gadgil, A.; Martino Jannuzzi, G. de - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP - 2008

We evaluate the conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for managing the rapidly increasing electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved energy using 16 W CFLs is 4 and 6 times less than the long...

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Electricity pricing in Korea: A study of pricing initiatives as positive contributors to the development process

Hill, L.J. - 2008

The economic miracle'' in South Korea over the past three decades has been supported by a corresponding increase in electric generating capacity in a relatively short period of time, accomplished in a country with limited domestic energy resources and large commitments of capital to...

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Effect of market structure on international coal trade

Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009

This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...

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Clean development mechanism: Perspectives from developing countries

Sari, Agus P.; Meyers, Stephen - 2008

This paper addresses the political acceptability and workability of CDM by and in developing countries. At COP-3 in Kyoto in 1997, the general position among developing countries changed from strong rejection of joint implementation to acceptance of CDM. The outgrowth of CDM from a proposal from...

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Future Air Conditioning Energy Consumption in Developing Countriesand what can be done about it: The Potential of Efficiency in theResidential Sector

McNeil, Michael A.; Letschert, Virginie E. - 2008

The dynamics of air conditioning are of particular interestto energy analysts, both because of the high energy consumption of thisproduct, but also its disproportionate impact on peak load. This paperaddresses the special role of this end use as a driver of residentialelectricity consumption in...

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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets

Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008

This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...

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