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The Economy of Francesco and the Age of Sustainable Development
This paper sketches five systems of economic ethics in the course of Western history: the Ancient Greeks and Romans, Biblical Judaism and early Christianity; British empiricism; Social Darwinism; and the Churc...
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Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water
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Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water
To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and how multiple targets can be p...
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Business alignment for the “Decade of Action”
The SDGs and Paris Climate Agreement, taken together, constitute the best hope for charting a new course for the world’s politics and economics, to produce “the future we want.” This paper briefly explores the...
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Open AccessThe SDGs and human well-being: a global analysis of synergies, trade-offs, and regional differences
This paper explores the empirical links between achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and subjective well-being. Globally, we find that in terms of well-being, there are increasing marginal return...
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Sustainable Development Goals and Health: Toward a Revolution in Values
Pope Francis calls for a revolution in governance, to manage technologies for the common good. In my mind, this brings us back to politics in the tradition of Aristotle rather than the tradition of Machiavelli...
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Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change call for deep transformations in every country that will require complementary actions by governments, civil society, science ...
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Importance of Green Finance for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals and Energy Security
In 2017, global investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency declined by 3% and there is a risk that it will slow further. Clearly, fossil fuels still dominate energy investments. This could threaten t...
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Importance of Green Finance for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals and Energy Security
In 2017, global investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency declined by 3% and there is a risk that it will slow further. Clearly, fossil fuels still dominate energy investments. This could threaten t...
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A One-Sector Model of Robotic Immiserization
We investigate whether robots raise or lower economic well-being for generations alive during and after their development. While capital that perfectly substitutes for human labor can increase output, it can a...
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Regional Development, Geography of
New theoretical work on spatial concentration of industry – particularly the ‘new economic geography’ – has significantly helped our understanding why some regions develop more than others, why cities arise an...
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Extreme Poverty
Households living in extreme poverty face deprivations that cost millions of lives annually. Ending extreme poverty requires an understanding of poverty traps, including the effects of adverse biophysical and ...
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National baselines for the Sustainable Development Goals assessed in the SDG Index and Dashboards
The Sustainable Development Goals map out a broad spectrum of objectives. Analytical tools in form of the Index and Dashboards provide a starting point to set national baselines, and allow comparison of the SD...
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Globalization—In the Name of Which Freedom?
I consider four waves of globalization. The first is Commercial Capitalism (1500-1800), following the voyages of Columbus and Da Gama. The second is Industrial Capitalism (1800-1950), following the industrial ...
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The Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff
A cliché of introductory economics courses is the trade-off between efficiency and equity. A market economy, it is said, is efficient: national income is maximized as profit-maximizing businesses and utility-m...
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Pathways to zero emissions
To keep global warming below 2 °C, countries need long-term strategies for low-emission development. Without these, immediate emissions reductions may lock-in high-emitting infrastructure, hamper collaboration...
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Will Natural Resource Constraints Derail Long-Term Global Growth?
We are certainly living in turbulent times. At the time of this conference, we discussed the thrilling possibilities for dynamic global development fueled by technological advances. Technology diffuses from one.....
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Regional Development, Geography of
Differences in economic activity across regions have interested economists since Adam Smith, who argued that high overland transport costs in the interior of Africa and Asia ‘seem in all ages’ to have had hind...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Regional Development, Geography of
New theoretical work on spatial concentration of industry – particularly the ‘new economic geography’ – has significantly helped our understanding why some regions develop more than others, why cities arise an...
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Reference Work Entry At a glance
Extreme Poverty
There are many definitions of poverty, as well as intense debates about the exact numbers of the poor, where they live and how their numbers are changing over time. As a matter of definition, it is useful to d...
