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... environmental reform throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the behavior of multilateral donors remained relativelyunchanged through the mid- and late 1990s. The second half ofthe chapterbegins the ... China and India were at the top ofthe list of recipients as developing nations with huge populations and quickly risingeconomies, and shared the same major donors ofenvironmental aid. Brazil and ... for the Earth?between 1970 and 2000, they provided less than half ofthe total moneyflowing from of cial sources. The PLAID database covers the vast majority (perhaps over 90 per cent) of official...
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... the growing burden of NCDs: ã A global analysis ofthe economic impactof NCDs by the World Economic Forum andthe Harvard School of Public Healthã An analysis ofthe costs of scaling up a core ... result of its use. The designations employed andthe presentation ofthe material in this overview do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part ofthe World Health Organization ... Forum andthe Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) on the economic impact of NCDs was carried out by a team led by Professor David E. Bloom (Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and...
... petitioned the court to rehear the case andthe final outcome of these and had yet to be determined at the time of this report’s publication. In 2007, EPA’s Office of Water (OW) initiated the aforementioned ... varies depending on the geographic location ofthe field, the type of hydrocarbons being produced, and other features associated with the geology andextraction techniques used. In some instances ... basis, theenvironmental footprint of oil and gas production in Region 8 and other producing regions across the United States is growing and deserving of increased focus and attention. Environmental...
... for the introduction ofthe Internet in the 90s.13III. Evaluating the Economic Impactof Cloud Computing:Methodology and DataOur approach in the evaluation oftheimpactofthe diffusion of ... reducing the fixed costs of entry and production in the economy. The theoretical part ofthe paper develops an extension ofthe framework introduced byColciago and Etro (2008) and other related ... reduction ofthe costs of entry and we will differentiate the simula-tions for cases of slow and rapid adoption to evaluate the range of results. The general specification ofthe process of cost...
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