While bringing positive impacts and benefits, cross-border infrastructure projects face additional challenges relative to national projects. Moreover, such projects involve a variety of technical, regulatory, institutional, and legal factors, and their obstacles constrain the development of cross-border infrastructure projects. This paper argues that proper technical specifications and well-fun...

Over the past several decades, significant efforts have been made to regulate the use of resource and pollution in most industrialized countries, and the stringency of pollution regulations has continued to increase globally. At the same time, physical and social infrastructures are influenced by changes in the use of resources which contribute to the wealth of many regions. Technical progress ...

We show that our general result (Withagen and Asheim [8]) on the converse of Hartwick’s rule also applies for the special case of Solow’s model with one capital good and one exhaustible resource. Hence, the criticism by Cairns and Yang [1] of our paper is unfounded. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers : D63, Q01, Q32

Polyhydroxybutyrate Homopolymers (PHB) were produced by transgenic yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae INVSc1/PHA1 and Schizosaccharomyces pombe Q01/PHB equipped in their cytoplasm and chromosome with the phaABC operon of the PHA biosynthetic pathway of Ralstonia eutropha, respectively. Re The polyesters were purified and physically characterized by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and Infra...

We imbed a classic fishery model, where the optimal policy follows a Most Rapid Approach Path to a steady state, into an overlapping generations setting. The current generation discounts future generations’ utility flows at a rate possibly different from the pure rate of time preference used to discount their own utility flows. The resulting model has non-constant discount rates, leading to tim...

The magnetic sublevel specific preparation of the uX Sg 1 ,v51,J51& state of molecular H2 using stimulated Raman pumping with circularly polarized light to saturate the Q01(1) transition is reported. The intensities of S branch rotational Raman scattering signals for the v50 and v51 states combined with their depolarization ratios measured as a function of pumping light polarization provide dir...

Thinking about population as a driver of agricultural development provides insights into induced technical and institutional change, whether it be Esther Boserup’s declining fallow period, modern crop varieties, or the specialization pyramid that arises in laborintensive agriculture. The non-convexities of research and development, infrastructure investments, and specialization imply that modes...

In this article, we make three contributions: i) wealth is the correct linear indicator of welfare (defined as the present value of future utilities) if population is constant, ii) there is no need to make assumption of an optimal economy and by using the abstract notion of a resource allocation mechanism, it is possible to develop intertemporal welfare economics in imperfect economies, iii) wi...

Let n = pq, p, q distinct odd primes. We can divide the numbers in Zn into four classes depending on their membership in QRp and QRq. Let Q11 n be those numbers that are quadratic residues mod both p and q; let Q10 n be those numbers that are quadratic residues mod p but not mod q; let Q 01 n be those numbers that are quadratic residues mod q but not mod p; and let Q00 n be those numbers that a...

The paper extends a dynamic version of the classical von NeumannMorgenstern setting to incorporate a degree of confidence in or subjectivity of probabilistic beliefs. It provides a simple axiomatic characterization of a new preference representation that addresses ambiguity from a simple perspective, employing only basic tools from risk analysis. Conceptually, the paper renders the concept of s...