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Energy policy with externalities and internalities [PDF]

Journal of Public Economics, 2014
Abstract We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy costs relative to their private optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality Taxes: aside from reducing externalities, they also offset distortions from underinvestment in energy efficiency.
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International Policy Entrepreneurship

2019
The concept of the policy entrepreneur lends itself to analysing how actors at the international level draw attention to problems, advance workable proposals, and link outcomes to symbolic values. The international space is a challenging arena for policy advocacy, as it lacks the oversight and well-established systems of policy development commonly ...
Mintrom, Michael, Luetjens, Joannah
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International forest policy.

2013
This chapter focuses on the dynamics of international forest policy development and adoption. Specific topics covered include the following: two major changes in thinking about the main norms and principles guiding forest governance (a change from a governmental approach to a multi-actor and multi-level governance approach, and a related change from ...
Wiersum, K.F., Arts, B.J.M.
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The Elderly: An International Policy Perspective

The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 1983
aging (Vienna, 26 July to 6 August 1982) the Sandoz Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Studies undertook a 16 nation survey on the problems of the elderly (defined as persons aged 60 and over) in consultation with the United Nations Center for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs.
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Internal Policy

Abstract Single measures such as a ban on child labour, or compulsory education, are unlikely to be self-enforcing, and may be inefficient even if they are self-enforcing. If information is asymmetric (e.g., the use children make of their time when they are neither at school, nor working overtly in the labour market, is not observable by
Alessandro Cigno, Furio C. Rosati
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Lessons for the international policy community

2009
The nations of the world confront a tremendous challenge in designing and implementing an international policy response to the threat of global climate change that is scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic. It is broadly acknowledged that the relatively wealthy, developed countries are responsible for a majority of the ...
Joseph E. Aldy, Robert N. Stavins
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The Nature of International Policy Regimes

1997
The concept of international policy regimes has come into widespread use over the last couple of decades, but this usage has also involved significant controversy. Some analysts have challenged the validity of the regimes concept itself. Others have debated the origins of regimes and their connections with underlying forces such as economic and ...
Lee E. Preston, Duane Windsor
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National and international information policy

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1985
AbstractDevelopments in computer and telecommunications technology underlie the shift to an information‐based economy. Throughout the world policymakers are establishing national policies to promote their information industries and to protect against potential negative effects of the information age.
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International Trade and International Policies

Abstract Trade and foreign direct investment raise productivity and thus income (though not in the same measure for everybody). Their effects on education and child labour depend on initial conditions. If a sufficiently large share of a country’s adult population is educated to the level required to attract skill-intensive investment ...
Alessandro Cigno, Furio C. Rosati
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HEALTH AS AN INSTRUMENT OF INTERNATIONAL POLICY

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1956
• Human health can be used as an instrument for fostering either good will or hatred on an international scale. Examples of the misuse of medical science in the recent past are the demoralization of nations with drugs like heroin and the spreading of accusations about bacteriological warfare.
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