Economic instruments for the implementation of state environmental policy

Institutional, Legal, and Economic Instruments in Ghana's Environmental Policy.

/ This paper reviews the state of the environment in Ghana and explores the potential for the use of institutional, legal, and economic instruments in environmental management in the specific context of this developing country.The environmental situation in Ghana is characterized by desertification, land degradation, deforestation, soil erosion, and inadequate water supply in the northern regio...

Harry Potter and the Pendulums of Perpetual Motion : Economic Policy Instruments for Environmental Management

Welcome to the first issue of Connections: Farm, Food and Resource Issues. Connections: the name reflects its origins, its intentions and the medium. It is a joint product of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) and the Australian Agribusiness Association (AAA). It is intended that Connections will publish connecting material in farm and agribusiness, in marketing ...

Designing Instruments for Resource and Environmental Policy

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The need for policy instruments 3. The Range of Policy Options 4. The Selection and Design of Policy Instruments 4.1. Efficiency with heterogeneous abatement costs 4.2. Difficult monitoring of emissions (but complementarity with products) 4.3. Efficiency with heterogeneous damage costs 4.4. Uncertainty in damage costs and efficiency 4.5. Inter-temporal efficiency wit...

Market-based Environmental Policy Instruments

Speed of Convergence And Economic Policy Instruments

This article presents an innovative methodology to empirically evaluate the response of the rate of convergence in the neoclassical growth model to changes in the conditional factors. We apply this method to test the sensitivity of the speed of convergence in the EU-15 during the period 1980-2002 to increases in human and public capital. INTRODUCTION The relation between private productivity an...