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on Environmental Economics |
| By: | Matilde Alonso (LCE – REAL - Langues et cultures européennes Histoire des idées : Europe - Amérique latine REAL - [Université Lumière - Lyon II]) |
| Abstract: | La micro-région de Tomina constitue une partie du département de Chuquisaca (Bolivie). Un département situé dans les vallées inter-andines où la coopération au développement de l'Union européenne s'est proposée de financer des projets de développement rural à partir du Programme des Micro-Projets Ruraux (PMPR) en vue promouvoir l'économie du territoire et de lutter contre la pauvreté. <br />Tandis que la Bolivie connaît une récupération économique générale, l'incidence de la récupération économique sur la structure productive primaire de Chuquisaca connaît des limites. L'étude du modèle de développement de la micro-région de Tomina permet de comprendre que ce sont les facteurs endogènes qui peuvent donner une explication aux problèmes du développement de la réalité du département. On ne pourrait pas nier l'existence des facteurs exogènes, mais notre diagnostic montre davantage la contribution des facteurs endogènes. |
| Keywords: | Amérique Latine ; Bolivie ; développement rural ; environnement |
| Date: | 2006–12–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:papers:halshs-00119414_v1&r=env |
| By: | William D. Nordhaus |
| Abstract: | How much and how fast should the globe reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? How should nations balance the costs of the reductions against the damages and dangers of climate change? This question has been addressed by the recent "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change," which answers these questions clearly and unambiguously. We need urgent, sharp, and immediate reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. An analysis of the "Stern Review" finds that these recommendations depend decisively on the assumption of a near-zero social discount rate. The Review's unambiguous conclusions about the need for extreme immediate action will not survive the substitution of discounting assumptions that are consistent with today's market place. |
| JEL: | Q4 Q5 |
| Date: | 2006–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:12741&r=env |
| By: | Susanne D. Mueller |
| Abstract: | Donors have developed new micro-level and local paradigms to address rural development, environmental sustainability, and poverty alleviation to bypass, ignore, and substitute for badly functioning and corrupt states. Yet, states still set the macro-economic, legal, and policy parameters or “rules of the game” within which other entities operate, and many non-state actors are only nominally independent. Hence, technical initiatives stemming from these paradigms, aimed at growth and equity are often theoretically misconceived and tend to fail when implemented. The paper critically discusses the new paradigms, including decentralization, civil society, microentrepreneurship, and capacity building, among others, mainly using African examples. |
| Keywords: | economic development, formal and informal and insitutional arrangements, development planning and policy, economic development, regional urban and rural analyses, formal and informal sectors, institutional arrangements, institutional linkages to development. |
| JEL: | O10 O17 O20 O18 O19 |
| Date: | 2006–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:une:wpaper:11&r=env |