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  • OConnor, David  (8)
  • Paris : OECD Publishing  (8)
  • Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    A Multi-Region Social Accounting Matrix (1995) and Regional Environmental General Equilibrium Model for India (REGEMI) (2003)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Pages: 58 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.213
    Keywords: Development ; India
    Abstract: This technical paper presents the complete technical specification of the current version of the RE-GEM (Regional and Environmental General Equilibrium Model) for India. The document lists all the key structural and behavioural equations, providing a justification for the chosen model specification. In addition, a complete description is provided of the estimation methods and the sources of the Indian data used in the model; an aggregated version of the Indian regional Social Accounting Matrix we constructed is appended to this document. The object is to inform in the most detailed way possible researchers interested in building on the OECD’s modelling effort, and to provide a useful tool for informing the debate on the economics of environmental policy in developing countries ...
    DOI: 10.1787/086028786614
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    Providing Low-cost Information Technology Access to Rural Communities in Developing Countries : What Works? What Pays? (2003)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Pages: 48 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.229
    Keywords: Development
    Abstract: Rural areas of the developing world are the last frontier of the information technology revolution. Telephone and internet penetration there remains a small fraction of what it is in the developed world. Limited means of electronic communication with the outside world are just one source of isolation of rural communities and economies from the forces of national and global integration, albeit an important one. Without roads and electricity, the benefits of extending ICT access would be greatly diminished. Conversely, where these other elements of infrastructure are in place, those benefits can be multiplied. The costs of ICT provision to rural areas tend to be higher than to more densely populated urban areas, and the ability to pay of potential subscribers lower. In recent years, a number of interesting experiments has been initiated to extend low-cost telephone and, in some cases, internet access to low-income rural communities. This paper reviews some of these, with a particular ...
    DOI: 10.1787/675385036304
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    Agricultural and Human Health Impacts of Climate Policy in China : A General Equilibrium Analysis with Special Reference to Guangdong (2003)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Pages: 84 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.206
    Keywords: Development ; China, People’s Republic
    Abstract: China’s climate policy over the coming decades will be crucial to efforts to slow global warming. While CO2 emissions growth slowed in the 1990s, it is too early to know if this represents the beginning of a long-term downward trend in the carbon intensity of China’s economy. Climate policymaking needs to consider the full range of economic costs and benefits of slowing greenhouse gas emissions growth. Like other developing countries, China’s medium-term preoccupation is with ensuring poverty-reducing economic growth, so climate policy must be both effective and consistent with this developmental goal. This study of health and agricultural productivity effects of a carbon tax shows that there is considerable scope for slowing emissions growth without diminishing economic welfare. The health benefits of reduced local pollution are significant, and the welfare gains from improved agricultural productivity are almost as large. When both health and agricultural benefits of a carbon tax ...
    DOI: 10.1787/110657276654
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    Of Flying Geeks and O-Rings: Locating Software and IT Services in India's Economic Development (2003)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Pages: 26 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.224
    Keywords: Development ; India
    Abstract: This paper offers an analytical framework for understanding the evolution of India’s software industry and its place in the broader economy. It then considers how well the framework helps to answer three questions: i) What difference has the IT sector made to aggregate economic performance, at national and at state level? ii) What has been the impact of IT-sector growth on income distribution and on poverty? iii) What policy or other measures might enhance the benefits of the sector’s growth to ordinary Indians? ...
    DOI: 10.1787/165600237462
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    Policies and Institutions for E-Commerce Readiness : What Can Developing Countries Learn From OECD Experience? (2002)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Pages: 52 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.189
    Keywords: Development
    Abstract: E-commerce policy priorities evolve with a country’s transition through phases of “e-commerce readiness”. For most developing countries, getting the basic telecommunications infrastructure, competitive environment, and regulatory framework in place to support widespread and affordable Internet access remains the highest priority. Telecoms privatisation needs to be accompanied by expanded competition, not excessively generous exclusivity agreements. In important middle-income developing countries, governments must address a further challenge: ensuring an e-commerceconducive business environment. Some issues, like consumer protection, are familiar even if cross-jurisdictional, remote and anonymous transactions in a virtual environment complicate dispute resolution. Other issues are unique to or especially acute in a virtual environment, like protection of privacy, security of transactions, and authentication of electronic signatures. The OECD has devised a number of guidelines ...
    DOI: 10.1787/604626755535
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    Clearing the Air in India : The Economics of Climate Policy with Ancillary Benefits (2001)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Pages: 58 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.182
    Keywords: Development ; India
    Abstract: With the aid of a computable general equilibrium model, this paper estimates for India the magnitude of spillovers from limiting growth of greenhouse gas emissions to local air quality and the health of the urban population. The most important spillovers are reductions in emissions of particulates with associated declines in mortality and morbidity. By valuing these spillovers (or ancillary benefits), we can compare them with the welfare costs of climate policy, estimating that — on conservative assumptions — emissions could be reduced by somewhat more than 10 per cent from their 2010 baseline level without incurring net costs. With central estimates of substitution elasticities and willingness-to-pay for health improvements, “no regrets” abatement could reach around 17-18 per cent of baseline emissions. The analysis also permits assessment of the inter-regional variation in costs and benefits, finding that abatement costs are relatively low and ancillary benefits high in North and ...
    DOI: 10.1787/088226224463
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    Global Capital Flows and the Environment in the 21st Century (2000)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Pages: 35 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.161
    Keywords: Development
    Abstract: Both the magnitude and the composition of capital flows from rich to poor countries have changed markedly over the past decade. While official flows have stagnated, private flows have mushroomed and portfolio investment and bank lending have grown more rapidly than foreign direct investment (FDI), though with much higher volatility. Given the impact of investment decisions on patterns of resource use (including the environment), what are the implications of these trends? A bricks–and–mortar investment by a multinational corporation (MNC) requires consideration of environmental impacts in a way that neither a bank loan nor portfolio investment does. The evidence suggests that foreign direct investment (FDI), especially by large MNCs, is not concentrated in “dirty” industries, and where it does go into such sectors environmental performance of MNCs is usually above local standards. For smaller OECD investors, reliance on public–sector investment guarantee and insurance agencies can ...
    DOI: 10.1787/072873485602
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    E-Commerce for Development : Prospects and Policy Issues (2000)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Pages: 34 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.164
    Keywords: Development
    Abstract: In this paper, we analyse the potential contribution of the Internet and its commercial application to the development process in poor countries. In historical perspective, the Internet has diffused at a far faster rate than earlier generations of communications technology: from 1990 to early 2000, the estimated number of Internet users grew more than tenfold to roughly 300 million, affecting the way in which people communicate with each other, acquire information, learn, do business, and interact culturally. Our particular focus is on the opportunities e-commerce offers to small-scale entrepreneurs in developing countries and the challenges they face in exploiting e-commerce’s potential. There is a risk that a “digital divide” will emerge, reinforcing existing income and wealth inequalities within and between countries. Yet, a major potential benefit of globalisation is the freer movement of technology, including information and communication technology (ICT), across borders. In ...
    DOI: 10.1787/814454018016
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