[PDF] Top 20 Eco Efficiency and Convergence in OECD Countries

... analyses convergence in eco-efficiency at country and environmental pressure level, but further work is required in a topic of such interest to society and with great ... See full document

... relates in turn to the current international financial crisis, as discussed at length in Obstfeld and Rogoff ...those countries with the highest current account disequilibria are those that ... See full document

... Phillips and Sul (2007) methodology, which tests for the existence of convergence ...differences in emission intensity convergence are more determined by differences in ... See full document

... decentralization and regional disparities, figure 1 reports the marginal effect of fiscal decentralization on regional inequality against the quality of government taking 95 % confidence intervals (based on column ... See full document

... interest in the last years due to the impact of the international …nancial ...crisis. In this paper, we assess whether the trade channel, as an adjustment mechanism in the long-run, has been working ... See full document

... sector in recent years, especially in European economies, has been the one on productivity and ...processes in advanced countries restrain the productivity growth of their overall ... See full document

... markedly in the period ahead as the aluminium-related investments near completion and household demand is adversely affected by high interest ...cuts and accelerating exports as aluminium production ... See full document

... [6] and [7] can be es- ...dependence in the resi- duals of the three regressions. As can be observed in the table, the hypothesis of spa- tial dependence cannot be rejected for the entire ...error ... See full document

... They are also developed in sandstone in the southern Flinders Ranges and Tennessee, from dacite, in the Gawler Ranges CAMPBELL & TWIDALE 1991, from basalt as for example in the Drakensbe[r] ... See full document

... of convergence and Cauchyness appeared separately in the context of fuzzy metric spaces in the sense of George and Veera- ...each convergence (Cauchyness) concept we find a ... See full document

... Ouardighi and Somun-Kapetanovic (2007) analyze the convergence process of five Western Balkan countries towards the EU-27 between 1989 and ...increased and that convergence ... See full document

... problems. In most drinking cultures, females are expected to abstain or drink less than males and as a consequence they actually drink ...problems and hide more their addiction, which in turn ... See full document

... Research In spite of great limitations and dispar- ities among countries, several excellent research centers have developed in the ...pivotal in generat- ing knowledge of endemic ... See full document

... Countries that are reforming their pension systems—or that have done so in the past decade—ultimately choose between two broadly defined models of pension system: the OECD model and the [r] ... See full document

... sources and is spread over too many programmes – when it is “fragmented” – it can create serious ...teachers and aid workers in developing countries spend much of their time filling in ... See full document

... shifts in intermediate demand (Elfring, 1988a and b, ...(Freeman and Schettkat, ...changes in the productive systems, which explain their use, and, where relevant, their outsourcing ... See full document

... apply in this paper recently proposed multivariate tests, that reconcile the importance of the cross-sectional dimension for the assessment of convergence with the well established inference procedures ... See full document

... BASF desarrolló la metodología “Análisis de Eco-eficiencia” para medir la Eco-eficiencia de sus productos y procesos. El AE se basa en el análisis del ciclo de vida definido en la serie de normas ISO 14040 ... See full document

... Barro and Sala- i-Martin (1992), who analyze the convergence process across the forty-eight contiguous ...tes in the period ...of convergence is 2% per year, regardless of the time ...primary ... See full document

... background in Australia, Turkish applicants in Flanders applying for shortage occupations (so-called “bottleneck” jobs), Portuguese in French-speaking areas of Switzerland, and against Latino ... See full document