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Public Disclosure of Industrial Pollution: The PROPER Approach for Indonesia?
(2009-12-08)This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the Program for Pollution Control Evaluation and Rating (PROPER) in Indonesia. PROPER, the first major public disclosure program in the developing world, was launched in June ... -
Output and Abatement Effects of Allocation Readjustment in Permit Trade
(2009-12-08)In permit trading systems, free initial allocation is common practice. A recent example is the European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). We investigate effects of different free allocation schemes ... -
Natural Resource Dependency and Quality of Government
(2009-12-04)This paper introduces quality of government rather than regime type as dependent variable in studies of the political effects of natural resources. It consists of two parts. First, it theorizes the role of fiscal dependency ... -
Have Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations a Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries?
(2009-12-04)We aim to study whether lax environmental regulations induce comparative advantages, causing the least-regulated countries to specialize in polluting industries. The study is based on Trefler and Zhu’s (2005) definition ... -
Corporate environmental management in transition economies: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
(2009-12-04)We use firm-level data to study the adoption of Environmental Management Practices (EMPs) in the most polluting industrial sectors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia during the 1990 – 1998 ... -
Bioeconomic Model of Community Incentives for Wildlife Management Before and After CAMPFIRE
(2009-12-03)This paper formulates a bioeconomic model to analyze community incentives for wildlife management under benefit-sharing programs like the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe. ... -
Agricultural Risk Management through Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Rural Zimbabwe
(2009-12-03)This paper investigates whether the risk faced by rural farmers in Zimbabwe could poten- tially be managed by using community-based wildlife conservation. Community-based wildlife conservation could be an additional asset ... -
Jens Warming (1931) on Open Access, Pigovian Tax, and Property Rights
(2009-12-01)This article summarizes the contribution in fisheries economics by the Danish economist Jens Warming and gives a translation of his article “Aalegaardsretten” (The Danish Right to Eel Weir, 1931). Warming, provides an early ... -
The Role of Soil Conservation on Mean Crop Yield and Variance of Yield - Evidence from the Ethiopian Highlands
(2009-11-30)Land degradation has been one of the major areas of concern in Ethiopia. Governments and development agencies have invested substantial resources to promote land management technologies and reduce land degradation. ... -
The Role of Production Risk in Sustainable Land-Management Technology Adoption in the Ethiopian Highlands
(2009-11-30)This paper provides empirical evidence of production risk impact on sustainable land- management technology adoption, using two years of cross-sectional plot-level data collected in the Ethiopian highlands. We used a ... -
Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Does Agroecology Matter?
(2009-11-30)Sustainable agricultural practices, in as far as they rely on renewable local or farm resources, present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity for resource-constrained farmers in developing countries. ... -
Soil Conservation and Small-Scale Food Production in Highland Ethiopia A Stochastic Metafrontier Approach
(2009-11-30)This study adopts the stochastic metafrontier approach to investigate the role of soil conservation in small-scale highland agriculture in Ethiopia. Plot-level stochastic frontiers and metafrontier technology-gap ratios ... -
Risk Implications of Farm Technology Adoption in the Ethiopian Highlands
(2009-11-30)In countries where insurance and credit markets are thin or missing, production and consumption risks play a critical role in the choice and use of production inputs and adoption of new farm technologies. In this paper, ... -
Market Imperfections and Farm Technology Adoption Decisions - A Case Study from the Highlands of Ethiopia
(2009-11-30)This paper investigates the impacts of market and institutional imperfections on technology adoption in a model that considers fertilizer use and soil conservation to be joint decisions. Controlling for plot characteristics ... -
Estimating Returns to Soil and Water Conservation Investments - An Application to Crop Yield in Kenya
(2009-11-30)Productivity gains from soil and water conservation (SWC) have empirical support in research stations. Previous empirical results from on-farm adoption of SWC are, however, varied. This study investigated the impact of ... -
Economics of Soil Conservation Adoption in High-Rainfall Areas of the Ethiopian Highlands
(2009-11-30)This study measures the impact of fanya juu bunds (an important soil and water conservation technology and the most popular type of contour bund in east Africa) on the value of crop production in a high-rainfall area in ... -
Determinants of Household Fuel Choice in Major Cities in Ethiopia
(2009-11-30)This paper looks at the fuel choice of urban households in major Ethiopian cities, using panel data collected in 2000 and 2004. It examines use of multiple fuels by households in some detail, a topic not much explored ... -
Enforcement of Exogenous Environmental Regulations, Social Disapproval, and Bribery
(2009-11-30)Many resource users are not directly involved in the formulation and enforcement of resource management rules and regulations in developing countries. As a result, resource users do not generally accept such rules. Enforcement ... -
On the Law of Demand. - A mathematically simple descriptive approach for general probability density functions
(2009-11-30)In this paper we assume that choice of commodities at the individual (household) level is made inside the budget set and that the choice can be described by a probability density function. We prove that law of demand()0xExpis ... -
Effects of Global Fisheries on Developing Countries Possibilities for Income and Threat of Depletion
(2009-11-30)This study deals with fisheries and trade, focusing on developing countries. Fish is globally traded, and for many developing countries, it is an important net export good. In most of these countries, fisheries are often ...