According to the pollution haven effect (PHE) mobile capital responds to environmental regulation by moving from countries with high regulation to those with low regulation. Previous tests of the PHE have focused on host country regulation effect. This study also examines the effect of home country regulation on foreign direct investment (FDI). I use a panel of 28 OECD countries for 1981-2000 t...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek to show how the implementation of different quality assurance programs (QAPs) affects international market access for horticultural processing firms in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach – A representative survey of 50 registered firms processing horticultural produce in Vietnam was conducted. Logistic regression models are used to a...

BACKGROUND Rankings from the World Health Organization (WHO) place the US health care system as one of the least efficient among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Researchers have questioned this, noting simplistic or inappropriate methodologies, poor measurement choice, and poor control variables. Our objective is to re-visit this question by using newer m...

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This country section is an extract from chapter 3 of the OECD publication (2008) Environmental Performance of Agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, which is available at the OECD website indicated below. A summary version of this report is published as Environmental Performance of Agriculture: At a Glance, see the OECD website which also contains the agri-environmental indicator time series...

This paper aims to provide a critical and systematic review of the societal costs of air pollution-related ill health (CAP), to explore methodological issues that may be important when assessing or comparing CAP across countries and to suggest ways in which future CAP studies can be made more useful for policy analysis. The methodology includes a systematic search based on the major electronic ...

s from the Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects (PEEREA) Article 3 Basic Principles Contracting Parties shall be guided by the following principles: (1) Contracting Parties shall co-operate and, as appropriate, assist each other in developing and implementing energy efficiency policies, laws and regulations. (2) Contracting Parties shall establish energ...

This article examines the relationships between family socioeconomic status (SES) and mathematics achievement across countries while taking into account (a) country’s development (b) types of resources (physical versus human) available at home. The 2012 round Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data were analyzed using necessary condition analysis (NCA) procedures. study found...

This paper studies and measures the output of sustainable (eco) innovation in the OECD area. Results are based on patent records and their use as indicators of innovation output. Two points have to be noted: First, It is of particular importance, when examining the innovation output of a broad area, which comprises of many and different countries, to identify main trends, highlight major innova...