This policy note first reviews the role of sustainable agricultural market information systems in promoting functional agricultural markets in low- and middle-income countries. Although much of this literature...
The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest and an important constituent of the global biosphere, continues degrading by rapid deforestation, which is expected to continue despite policies...
The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has already been lost. The worldwide value of preserving the remaining forest is today...
"Ecosystem services" has become a catch-phrase for the complex connections between the natural environment and human well-being. This paper considers the impact of changes in the supply of ecosystem services...
The authors analyze the determinants of fatalities in 2,194 large flood events in 108 countries between 1985 and 2008. Given that socioeconomic factors can affect mortality right in the aftermath of a...
Economic theory predicts that the current change in national wealth, broadly defined to include natural and human capital as well as produced capital, determines whether the present value of future changes...
This issue includes the following: trade liberalization and growth: new evidence, by Romain Wacziarg and Karen Horn Welch; comprehensive wealth and future consumption: accounting for population growth...
Romania was one of the first transition countries in Europe to introduce auctions for allocating standing timber (stumpage) in public forests. In comparison with the former system in the country-administrative...
Discrepancies in bilateral trade statistics for forest products have recently attracted attention as potential indicators of illegal trade practices. For example, if exporters understate quantities to...
The economic rationale for public expenditure is particularly strong in the case of environmental management. Yet, an environmental analysis is not a routine feature of public expenditure reviews by the...
Creating a legal framework for economic development. The domestic benefits of tropical forests: a critical review. Poverty in Russia during the transition: an overview. How bad is unemployment in Tunisia?...
Hyde, Amacher, and Magrath (1996) imply that deforestation and timber rents (logging revenue minus logging costs other than timber fees) are not subjects that justify policymakers' attention, arguing that...