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Sustainable economic development : resources, environment, and institutions /
Sustainable Economic Development: Resources, Environment, and Institutions presents 25 articles that lay the foundations of sustainable development in a way that facilitates effective policy design. The editors mix broad thematic papers with focused micro-papers, balancing theories with policy desig...
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Amsterdam :
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2014.
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| 520 | |a Sustainable Economic Development: Resources, Environment, and Institutions presents 25 articles that lay the foundations of sustainable development in a way that facilitates effective policy design. The editors mix broad thematic papers with focused micro-papers, balancing theories with policy designs. The book begins with two sections on sustainable development principles and practice and on specific settings where sustainable development is practiced. Two more sections illuminate institutions, governance, and political economy. Additional sections cover sustainable development and agricultu. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- Sustainable Economic Development -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction and Synthesis -- 1 The Principles and Practice of Sustainable Economic Development: Overview and Synthesis -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Resource Management and Sustainable Development -- 1.3 Institutions, Governance, and Political Economy -- 1.4 The Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Agricultural Development Policy -- 1.5 Development, Vulnerability, and Poverty Reduction -- 1.6 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Reflections on the Foundations of Development Policy Analysis -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 The Four Stages of Research in Development Economics -- 2.1.2 The Nature-Causes-Consequences Paradigm for Development Policy Analysis -- 2.2 Behavioral Foundations for Agricultural Development Policy -- 2.2.1 Toward Fundamental Explanations of Farm-Household Behavior -- 2.2.2 Modern Trends in Empirical Analysis -- 2.3 Organizational Foundations for Development Policy Analysis: The New Institutional Economics -- 2.3.1 Examples of Nonfundamental Explanations -- 2.3.2 From the Coase Theorem to Fundamental Explanations of Agrarian Contracts -- 2.3.3 Assumptions, Levels of Analysis, and Categorical Versus Noncategorical Theories -- 2.3.4 Toward a Unified Version of the New Institutional Economics -- 2.3.5 More on Big Versus Small Farms -- 2.3.6 The Economics of the Third-Best: A Constitutional Approach to Governing Rent-Seeking -- 2.4 Modern Theories of Market and Institutional Failure: Shocks, Traps, Nets, and Ladders -- 2.5 The Anatomy of Specialization -- 2.6 Black-Hole Economics -- 2.6.1 Prohibition of Alcohol and Drugs -- 2.6.2 Illegal Immigration -- 2.6.3 Abortion and Prostitution -- 2.6.4 Bans and Subsidies: Parastatals, Renewable Energy, and Sustainability. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6.2 Groundwater-Kiawe Management Framework -- 6.2.1 Groundwater Dynamics -- 6.2.2 Kiawe Dynamics -- 6.2.3 PV Maximization -- 6.2.4 The Optimal Steady State -- 6.3 An Application to the Kona Coast of Hawai'i -- 6.3.1 Hydrology -- 6.3.2 Groundwater Extraction and Desalination Costs -- 6.3.3 Demand for Water -- 6.3.4 Groundwater Uptake by Kiawe -- 6.3.5 Kiawe Removal Costs -- 6.4 Results -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- 7 Win-Win Solutions for Reforestation and Maize Farming: A Case Study of Nan, Thailand -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Maize Farming in Nan Province -- 7.3 Value of Community Forest Products -- 7.4 Farmers' Incentive to Convert Forest to Maize Farm -- 7.4.1 Perfect Foresight View -- 7.4.2 Shortsighted View -- 7.4.2.1 Myopia -- 7.4.2.2 Financial constraints -- 7.5 Limitations of Current Government Policies -- 7.6 Alternative Win-Win Policies -- 7.6.1 Green Subsidy -- 7.6.2 Irrigation -- 7.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Institutions, Governance, and Political Economy -- 8 The Role of Institutions in Natural Resource Use -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Institution, Resource Use, and Resource Scarcity: Debates in the Literature -- 8.2.1 Game Theory Studies on Common Property Resource Management -- 8.2.2 Effects of Trade on Resource Use in a Resource-Abundant Economy -- 8.3 Optimal Institutions Given the Cost of Institutional Change -- 8.3.1 Steady State Analysis -- 8.3.2 Institutional Change on the Transition Path -- 8.4 Institutional Choice in Equilibrium -- 8.5 Research Opportunities on Resource Governance -- 8.5.1 Transitions Across Different Forms of Institutions -- 8.5.2 General Equilibrium Effects -- 8.5.3 The Role of Government and Its Interaction with Resource Users -- 8.5.4 Institutions and Economic Development -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9 Public Choice and the Generalized Resource Curse. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Other Boom Sources -- 9.3 Mechanisms by Which Abundance Can Become a Curse -- 9.3.1 Crowding Out Manufacturing -- 9.3.2 Political Economy Curses: Distortionary Tariffs and the Transmission Effect -- 9.4 Modeling the Curse of Abundance -- 9.4.1 The Three-Sector Australian Model -- 9.4.1.1 Crowding out of manufactured importables -- 9.4.1.2 Distortionary tariff after the boom -- 9.4.2 The Augmented Dutch Disease: The Four-Sector Model -- 9.4.2.1 Crowding out of manufactured exportables -- 9.4.2.2 Distortionary tariff and the distribution of gains and losses -- 9.5 Rent-Seeking Effects on Public Policies -- 9.5.1 Modeling Rent-Seeking and the Political Economy Effects of the Boom -- 9.5.2 Learning by Lobbying -- 9.6 All That Curses Is Not Gold: Implication for the Philippines -- 9.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 10 Governing Commercial Agriculture in Africa: The Challenges of Coordinating Investments and Selecting Investors -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Capturing the Productivity Growth Potential Through Commercial Agriculture -- 10.2.1 Small Versus Large Farms? -- 10.2.2 The Challenges of Governing Large-Scale Commercial Farming -- 10.3 Coordinating Investments and Selecting Investors for Better Governance of Commercial Agriculture -- 10.3.1 Coordinating Investments and Selecting Investors for "Value" Discovery -- 10.3.2 Institutional Arrangements for Public and Private Coordination -- 10.3.3 Presidential Investor Advisory Councils -- 10.3.4 Industry-level Public-Private DIALOGUE and Coordination -- 10.3.5 Coordinating Public-Private Investments Within Spatial Development Plans -- 10.4 Coordinating with Communities and Local Stakeholders in Governing Commercial Agriculture -- 10.5 Governance Beyond Governments -- 10.5.1 Voluntary Industry Standards. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 10.5.2 Civil Society Organizations and Standards for Transparency and Good Governance -- 10.5.3 International Development Institutions -- 10.6 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Land Confiscations and Land Reform in Natural-Order States -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Confiscations in Early Modern Europe and Its Offshoots -- 11.2.1 Confiscations of Church Lands by Established Governments -- 11.2.1.1 Henry VIII's monastic confiscations -- 11.2.1.2 Joseph II's monastic confiscations -- 11.2.2 Confiscation of Lands by Revolutionary Parliaments -- 11.2.2.1 The interregnum confiscations in Great Britain -- 11.2.2.2 The loyalist confiscations in North America -- 11.2.2.3 Confiscations during the early French revolution -- 11.2.2.4 Confiscations by ruling chiefs in Hawai'i -- 11.3 Origins of Early Modern Confiscations -- 11.4 Redistribution and Sale of Confiscated Lands -- 11.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 12 Regional Integration and Illicit Economy in Fragile Nations: Perspectives from Afghanistan and Myanmar -- 12.1 Economic Framework for Illicit Activities and Its Cross-Border Context -- 12.2 Afghanistan -- 12.3 Myanmar -- 12.4 A Way Forward for Policy Analysis -- References -- Appendix: Notes on Harmful Drugs -- 13 Corruption, Transactions Costs, and Network Relationships: Governance Challenges for Thailand -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Setting: Political and Administrative Reforms and the Asian Economic Crisis -- 13.3 Network Relationships, Transactions Costs, and Corruption -- 13.3.1 Connected Dealings: Cases from Thailand -- 13.4 Reducing Connected Dealings and Improving Procurement in Thailand -- 13.4.1 Improving the Legal Infrastructure -- 13.4.2 Targeting Corruption-Friendly Economic Policies -- 13.4.3 Upgrading of the Database -- 13.4.4 Increased Social Mobilization for Enhanced Transparency -- 13.5 Conclusion -- References. | |
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