Employment creation and green development strategy

Mehmet, Özay

doi:10.1016/0921-8009(95)00035-8

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“…The second issue concerns the need for creating employment opportunities in DCs. In this connection, researchers such as Batabyal (1987), Bhalla (1992), Renner (1992), and Mehmet (1995) agree that DC governments must make a concerted attempt to design and implement policies that generate employment. The third issue concerns the apparent tradeoff between employment creation and environmental protection.…”

Section: Protection Dualism and Pollution In Developing Countriesmentioning

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Dynamic Environmental Policy in Developing Countries in the Presence of a Balance of Trade Deficit and a Tariff

2000

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We first review the literature pertaining to the protection of the modem sector in developing countries (DCs). We then discuss the nexuses between protection, economic dualism, and optimal environmental policy in DCs. Next, in the theoretical part of the paper, we construct a dynamic model of the environmental policy formulation process in a stylized DC in which there is a balance of trade deficit, and a tariff that protects the modem-also the import competing and the polluting-sector. The employment and output effects of three different pollution taxes are analyzed. These taxes incorporate different assumptions about the DC government's ability to commit to its announced course of action. The taxes are characterized, the dependence of these taxes on the extant tariff is studied, and the conditions which call for an activist policy, irrespective of the length of time to which the government can commit to its announced policy, are specified. Our analysis shows that the dynamic inconsistency of some optimal programs and the existence of the tariff can-either singly or collectively-prevent the DC government from attaining its employment and environmental goals.

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Section: Protection Dualism and Pollution In Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic Environmental Policy in Developing Countries in the Presence of a Balance of Trade Deficit and a Tariff

2000

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“…Positive net employment effect is found in Cai et al (2011) who studied the relationship between the green economy and green jobs in China's power generation. Mehmet (1995) too studied employment creation and the green development strategy. By highlighting the jobs versus environment dilemma for densely populated developing countries Mehmet suggests that the North should finance job creation in the South using funds raised through ecotaxes and levies on international trade.…”

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A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Heshmati

2017

IJGE

169

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Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are recycled, all energy is derived from renewables; activities support and rebuild the ecosystem and support human health and a healthy society and resources are used to generate value. This study is a review of the rapidly growing literature on CE covering its concept and current practices and assessing its implementation. The review also serves as an assessment of the design, implementation and effectiveness of CE related policies. It first presents the concept of CE and compares it with the current linear economy of taking materials, producing goods and disposing waste. It explains why it is imperative to move away from a linear economy towards regenerative sustainable industrial development with a closed loop. The paper then introduces current practices that have been introduced and discusses standards for the assessment of CE's development and performance. The main focus here is on providing a summary of the data analysis of key CE indicators to give a picture of CE practices. Third, based on an analysis of literature, the paper identifies the underlying problems and challenges to CE in an entrepreneurial perspective. Finally, the review provides a conclusion on CE's current development and gives policy suggestions for its future development as part of an entrepreneurial and innovative national level development strategy.

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“…Renner (1991) sheds light on the importance of employment creation in the context of "sustainable development." Mehmet (1995) emphasizes close ties between sustainable development and employment-creating development in planning and policy, and argues that highincome countries in the North should take the initiative for increasing investment flows for job-creating development in the South to make sustainability a practical reality. Furthermore, raising the objection that the employment/environment question in LDCs has received very little attention in the literature, Batabyal (1998) claims that the LDC governments may find it difficult to institute policies that ensure both employment creation and environmental protection.…”

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Environmental Protection and Urban Unemployment: Environmental Policy Reform in a Polluted Dualistic Economy

Daitoh¹

2003

Review Development Economics

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This paper explores sufficient conditions for the welfare-improving environmental policy reform in the Harris-Todaro economy. A rise in the pollution tax rate in the urban manufacturing has spillover effects on the two labor market distortions: the less-than-optimal manufacturing employment and the urban unemployment. If both are weakened the welfare improves. Otherwise, we need to develop an alternative sufficient condition. It is shown that there exists a range of welfare-improving pollution tax rates, and that it corresponds to the lower values of tax rate. This range may shrink by the wage subsidy policy and the technological change toward less pollution-intensive techniques.

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Employment creation and green development strategy

Cited by 36 publications

References 17 publications

Dynamic Environmental Policy in Developing Countries in the Presence of a Balance of Trade Deficit and a Tariff

Dynamic Environmental Policy in Developing Countries in the Presence of a Balance of Trade Deficit and a Tariff

A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Environmental Protection and Urban Unemployment: Environmental Policy Reform in a Polluted Dualistic Economy

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