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Social Sciences, 2018 Photovoltaic (PV) resource drives the clean global economy of the future. Its sustainability is widely confirmed in literature, however some countries present a growth very low in the last years. A new policy proposal is examined in this work. It aims to
Idiano D’Adamo
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The Government’s financial support for fossil fuel companies is being overlooked [PDF]
, 2012 Bob Ward explores the subsidies currently doled out by the government to fossil fuel companies and asks why it has not attracted the same degree of criticism as subsidies for the renewable energy ...
Ward, Bob
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Competitive Rechargeable Zinc Batteries for Energy Storage
Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.Growing energy demands and the associated increase in renewable energy production require robust, sustainable, and cost‐effective energy storage, in particular for large‐scale stationary applications. This review evaluates zinc‐based batteries as alternatives to lithium‐ion and vanadium redox flow systems by emphasizing zinc's accessibility ...
Janik Ruppert +11 more
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The Role of the Basic Health Program in the Coverage Continuum: Opportunities, Risks and Considerations for States [PDF]
, 2012 Outlines issues for offering subsidized coverage to those eligible for insurance exchange subsidies by using federal dollars that would otherwise go to those subsidies, including continuity of coverage, impact on exchanges, and financial ...
Deborah Bachrach +3 more
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Green Subsidies and the WTO [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 This paper provides a detailed explanation how the law of the World Trade Organization regulates environmental subsidies with a focus on renewable energy subsidies. The paper begins by discussing the economic justifications for such subsidies and the criticisms of them and then gives examples of categories of subsidies.
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
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Ecology and Society, 2011 Small-scale fisheries, which are often associated with low levels of income and poor infrastructure, receive substantial funding from governmental institutions worldwide.
Carolin I. Mondaca-Schachermayer +5 more
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Playing by the new subsidy rules: capital subsidies as substitutes for sectoral subsidies
Journal of International Economics, 1997 Abstract In a small, open economy characterized by an increasing-returns sector and foreign-owned capital, a sector-specific instrument generally is needed to achieve the optimum. A capital subsidy alone can be used for decentralization, however, when the optimal production plan is specialization in the externality-generating activity.
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper employs the data envelope analysis (DEA) to assess technological progress and its impact on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) across 18 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1973 to 2015.
Yu Sheng
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Fiscal Equalization in the System of Financial Support of Ukraine’s Regions: the Current State and Vector of Development [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2016 The peculiarities in the functioning of the current system of inter-budget relations in Ukraine from the perspective of its impact on the regional development have been disclosed.
Voznyak Halyna V.
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