Download or read book The Pedigree of IEC Conversion Factors for Per Capita GNP Computations for the World Bank s Operational Guidelines and Atlas written by Michael Hee and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pedigree of IEC Conversion Factors for Per Capita GNP Computations for the World Bank s Operational Guidelines and Atlas written by Michael Hee and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pedigree of IEC Conversion Factors for Per Capita GNP Computations for the Bank s Operational Guidelines and Atlas written by Michael Hee and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of sources, methods, adjustments, and manipulations of alternative conversion factors for the Bank's Altas per capita income calculations.
Download or read book Regression Estimates of Per Capita GDP Based on Purchasing Power Parities written by Sultan Ahmad and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Bank uses regressions to fill gaps in purchasing power parity based on estimates of per capita income.
Download or read book World Bank Policy Research Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coping with the Disappointing Rates of Return of Development Projects with Environmental Impacts written by William Ascher and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental political economy of early commitment to grandiose projects of uncertain environmental consequence has not been overturned. Projects with environmental impacts often have unacceptably low rates of return; governments and international agencies frequently fail to reject projects of this type. More realistic evaluations will help. It is important to hold those responsible for appraising a project accountable for their appraisals.
Download or read book Toxic Releases by Manufacturing written by Robert E. B. Lucas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would free trade result in greater and more rapid environmental degradation for developing countries? Less protection of their domestic industrial chemical industries would reduce the pollution-intensity of their manufacturing sector - but merely relocating firms that emit globally damaging toxins clearly misses the point.
Download or read book Growth and Welfare Losses from Carbon Emissions Restrictions written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To achieve a specified reduction in the accumulation of greenhouses gases in the atmosphere, it is far better to allow for flexibility in the timing of adjustment policies than to impose a particular deadline. This lesson applies to all countries: rigidly imposed limits on emissions controls entail unnecessary economic costs.
Download or read book Do Markets Underprice Natural resource Commodities written by Margaret E. Slade and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not systematically, except for the environmental externalities associated with the production and use of natural- resource commodities - especially mineral commodities, which cause the most pollution.
Download or read book Biomass written by David Oakley Hall and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carbon Taxes the Greenhouse Effect and Developing Countries written by Anwar Shah and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A universal case cannot be made for national carbon taxes. Nevertheless, such taxes make eminent sense for many developing countries - on the grounds of equity, efficiency, ease of tax administration, and an improved local environment, even ignoring the potential benefits from controlling global carbon emissions.
Download or read book Contents of Recent Economics Journals written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waterborne Diseases in Peru written by Sheila Webb and Associates and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cost of constructing easy- access water facilities (a standpipe less than 1,000 meters from each house) and latrines is an estimated $30 per capita. In Lima's peri-urban areas the cost of not providing them is about $40 per capita. Providing those facilities would relief the urban poor of devoting (directly and indirectly) an average 23 percent of their income to meeting their water needs.
Download or read book Waterborne Diseases in Peru written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Development and the Environment written by Wilfred Beckerman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the whole, there is a strong positive relationship between income level and environmental quality, and developing countries may be expected to improve environmental quality as their income rises. But new factors may change the usual pattern: new pollutants, cross-border environmental effects "trade" in polluting activities, and the growth of automobile traffic. Consequently, developing countries are likely to replicate precisely the environmental histories of developed countries.
Download or read book Trade and the Environment written by Judith Myrle Dean and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At best, trade barriers are a second- best means of reducing environmental damage. Any case for more gradual liberalization of trade should be based on estimates of the costs of maintaining barriers versus the benefits of delayed environmental damage.
Download or read book Agricultural Pricing and Environmental Degradation written by Edward Barbier and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
