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Showing items 8092 through 8100 of 73379.The environment and security literature
has argued that freshwater scarcity often leads to
inter-state conflict, and possibly acute violence. The
contention, however, ignores the long history of
Using a comprehensive geo-referenced
database of indicators relating to global change and energy,
the paper assesses countries' likely attitudes with
respect to international treaties that regulate carbon
This paper examines different models of
governing structure found in metropolitan areas around the
world. It evaluates how well these models achieve the
coordination of service delivery over the entire
The 1997 Indonesian financial crisis
resulted in severe economic dislocation and political
upheaval, and the detrimental consequences for economic
welfare, physical health, and child education have been
This paper uses a growth diagnostics
approach à la Hausmann, Rodrik, and Velasco (HRV) to
identify the most 'binding' constraints to private
sector growth in Mongolia - a small, low-income,
Real GDP per capita and capital stock in
Cote d'Ivoire grew strongly from 1960 to 1979, but have
declined ever since, for twenty-five years. As a result, the
country has traveled a full circle from economic success to
Policies to promote adaptation climate
risks often rely on the willing cooperation of the intended
beneficiaries. If these beneficiaries disagree with policy
makers and programme managers about the need for adaptation,
The adoption of new agricultural
technologies may be discouraged because of their inherent
riskiness. This study implemented a randomized field
experiment to ask whether the provision of insurance against
A recent study of house price behavior
in U.S. cities by Gyourko, Mayer, and Sinai (2006) raises
questions about so-called superstar cities in which housing
is so inelastically supplied that it becomes unaffordable,
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