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    Prospects of Blue Economy in the Indian Ocean

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The concept of Blue Economy is emerging as a new narrative on productive and sustainable engagement with the vast development opportunities that oceanic resources offer. The important sectors of Blue Economy are fisheries, sea-minerals including oil and gas, ports and shipping, marine tourism, marine biotechnology, deep-sea mining, and transport and logistics.
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    Truth-telling by Third-Party Audits and the Response of Polluting firms: Experimental Evidence from India

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    In many regulated markets, firms choose and pay private, third-party auditors, potentially creating a conflict of interest. This paper reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought to curb such a conflict by reforming the system of environmental audits for industrial plants.
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    The geography of trade and the environment: the case of CO2 emissions

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    According to recent theoretical developments, there are three key channels through which trade affects the environment: the first is via its effect on the scale of economic activity, the second is via a composition effect and the third is via a technical effect. This paper argues that, in addition to these traditional factors, the geography of international trade flows does matter.
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    India's energy system transition - survival of the greenest

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    The transition to a clean and green energy system is an economic and social transformation that is exciting as well as challenging.
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    Green brick technology transfer to Malawi: market assessment report for setting up Vertical Shaft Brick Kilns (VSBKs)

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    In Malawi, increasing demand for housing has put tremendous pressure on the building material sector, resulting in deforestation, rising costs and poor quality construction.Malawi holds potential for the adoption of green building materials. Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania have expressed interest in clean construction technology transfer.The way forward:
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    South-south technology transfer low carbon building technologies: inception report

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    This high rate of urbanisation puts tremendous pressure on the entire building material sector. With constraints in supply of material both the quality of material (brick) and the application (house) has degrade d to an alarming extent resulting in poor quality and increasing construction costs. Most often it has reached beyond the means of common beneficiaries.
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    Interaction between trade and environmental policies with special interest politics

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2007
    The basic tenets of economics view that an effective rule-based system of multilateral trade and investment is welfare improving because it achieves economic integration by utilizing the principles of competitiveness and comparative advantage.
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    Brazilian economy: recent evolution and new perspectives for South-South cooperation

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    Brazilian economic stagnation of the early 1980s mirrors that of the other Latin American countries. Thus, comparison on the economic data for the whole of Latin America from 1980 up to today and those of the 1950-1980 period, reveals that investment rates are substantially lower; unemployment is higher; and the average income of salaried workers is lower.
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    Biosafety protocol, precautionary approach and trade: identifying plausible policy options

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2005
    The Rio 1992 Summit adopted various instruments for translating the principles of Agenda 21 into reality including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). As part of its mandate the CBD led to the adoption of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in the year 2000.
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    Improving livelihoods through conservation and education. A case study of the Swastha butterfly garden

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2014
    In many parts of the developing world, those with physical or mental handicaps are often considered to be a burden on society, with limited to no remunerative activities available in the workforce. Activities such as butterfly farming, which require precision and attention to detail, are potentially relevant for disadvantaged groups as a source of livelihoods.

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