Industry has been reckoned to contribute much to environmental pollution in developed countries and much research has been done to proffer technological solutions. However, until last decade the technological impact of policies aimed at promoting environmentally sustainable industrial development was virtually uninvestigated. So far, work in this area has been largely limited to developed count...

Migrant remittances play an important role in many labor exporting countries in the world today. In some cases, remittances are the single most important source of foreign exchange. Because foreign exchange is a scant resource in many of the labor exporting countries, mobilizing remittances could ease foreign exchange bottlenecks, helping thus, to mitigate development finance, improve balance o...

Due to the importance of the government size impact on economic growth, the current study investigates the impact of government size on economic growth in economies of the developed and developing countries by using a panel data approach over the period 1990-2010. The results indicate that government size has positive effect on economic growth and negative effect on per capita production growth...

Globally, non-cereal crops such as vegetable oils and their associated products will surpass cereals in demand by 2050, according to the World Bank (WB). Despite being considered an energy-efficient food crop, production supply capability of rapeseed is mostly influenced climate conditions. Aiming this context, study explored how temperature rainfall patterns influence production, well prices m...

Abstract Despite widespread awareness of the detrimental impact CO2 pollution on world climate, countries vary widely in how they design and enforce environmental laws. Using novel microdata about multinational firms' emissions across countries, we document that firms headquartered with strict policies perform their polluting activities abroad relatively weaker policies. These effects are large...

Nowadays, Most of the cities, especially metropolises of developing countries are engaged with environmental issues like air and water pollution, waste increase and etc., that lead to the environmental destruction. Meanwhile sustainable urban development, provides the balance between development and the environment, and supplies the current generation needs while keep its eyes on the next gener...