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The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid for Sustainable EnergyForeign aid and technology transfer are an essential means, especially for the least developed countries, towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals as well as facilitating adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change...
Climate change Economic assistance and foreign aid Environmental economicsBlog
From the Editor's Desk (April 2013)
30 April 2013 Tony Addison As April closes, our thoughts turn to UNU-WIDER’s spring/summer programme. And it’s a busy one...
Economic development Conflict management Economic assistance and foreign aidWorking Paper
Climate Uncertainty and Economic Development: Evaluating the Case of Mozambique to 2050We apply a probabilistic approach to the evaluation of climate change impacts in the Zambeze River Valley. The economic modeling relies on an economywide modeling approach...
Climate change Economic forecasting Environmental economicsBlog
From the Editor's Desk (March 2013) Tony Addison This month saw UNU-WIDER in Stockholm for the ReCom results meeting on ‘aid and the social sectors’, which took place at Sida on 13 March...
Decision making (Finance, Public) Econometric models (Economic development) AgricultureWorking Paper
Every Drop Counts: Assessing Aid for Water and SanitationWater and sanitation sectors have been the ‘natural’ subjects of aid for several decades. However, these sectors also were among those most affected by changes in aid approaches and tools...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Econometric models (Economic development) Environmental economicsBook Chapter
Global Asymmetries and their Implications for Climate and Industrial PoliciesFrom the book: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Environmental economics Environmental policy Global warmingWorking Paper
Climate and Industrial Policy in an Asymmetric WorldClimate change is a phenomenon leading to randomly distributed disasters around the globe...
Environmental economics Global warming International obligationsPolicy Brief
Vulnerability in Developing CountriesThe first Millennium Development Goal aims to halve the number of people in the world living in extreme poverty...
Environmental economics Households PovertyJournal Article
Globalization, Local Ecosystems, and the Rural PoorPart of Journal Special Issue The Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor
Agriculture Environmental economics GlobalizationBook Chapter
A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Indicators to the Measurement of Human Well-BeingFrom the book: Inequality, Poverty and Well-being
Environmental economics Index numbers (Economics) PovertyWorking Paper
Globalization, Local Ecosystems, and the Rural PoorLivelihoods of the rural poor in developing countries are critically dependent on the health of the local ecosystems...
Agriculture Environmental economics GlobalizationWorking Paper
Flood Pulses, International Watercourse Law, and Common Pool Resources: a Case Study of the Mekong LowlandsIn river basins around the world, formal agreements based on international watercourse law are seen as important mechanisms for promoting sustainability and cooperation...
Agriculture Environmental economics Sustainable developmentWorking Paper
A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Indicators to the Measurement of Human Well-BeingThis study, relying on an economic-theoretical approach to index numbers, proposes a framework for incorporating environmental indicators to the measurement of human well-being...
Environmental economics Index numbers (Economics) PovertyBook
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1This text is the first of two volumes. Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of local resources...
Environmental economics Natural resourcesBook
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 2Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day to day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources...
Economic development Environmental economics Natural resourcesBook
The Economics of Transnational CommonsTransnational commons, cross-border areas without well-defined property rights, have long been ignored in 'official' development economics...
Environmental economics Natural resources Right of property