Impact of environmental and social attitudes, and family concerns on willingness to pay for improved air quality: a contingent valuation application in Mexico City
By means of a single-bounded, referendum format contingent valuation, this paper written by Massimo Filippini and Adán L. Martínez-Cruz, estimates willingness to pay (WTP) for improved air quality among residents of Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA). Findings from this paper illustrate heterogeneity in WTP associated with environmental and social attitudes, and family concerns. For instance, WTP
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Climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: policy options and research priorities
Although climate change is filled with uncertainties, a broad set of policies proposed to address this issue can be grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better prepared to cope with climate change have stressed the importance of mitigation, which ideally requires a global agreement that is still lacking. This paper
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New directions of trade for the agri-food industry: a disaggregated approach for different income countries, 1963–2000
The principal objective of the present study make by Raúl Serrano and Vicente Pinilla, search explain the changes in the direction of agri-food trade flows during the second half of the twentieth century. Since the end of the Second World War, trade has tended to be concentrated among developed countries, breaking the pattern of complementarity
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