Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal最新文献

{"title":"Understanding Social System Drivers of Green Building Innovation Adoption in Emerging Market Countries: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment","authors":"Avis Devine, Meagan McCollum","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3313748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3313748","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract There has been a growing academic focus on the economic, environmental, and social implications of sustainable innovation adoption. This work has largely focused on the developed world, yet the majority of people and future economic growth lies in the developing world. Further, most research examines micro data on consumers or firms, limiting what is known regarding the role of macro factors on diffusion, such as social systems. Addressing these limitations, this research provides the first high-level insights into how green building adoption is occurring in developing countries. Utilizing a hand-collected dataset of all green building certification activity in 97 emerging market countries over fifteen years, we examine the relationship between economic development and green building adoption. We find the use of international certification programs is far more common than domestic programs, and that domestic programs have only been originated in advanced emerging economies. Additionally, we observe a relationship between foreign direct investment into emerging markets countries and the proliferation of green building, and that in most cases, domestic certification programs only originate after international certification activity has been introduced to the local economy. Our findings carry economic and policy implications, worthy of consideration by both those interested in offering and attracting foreign investment in emerging market countries.","PeriodicalId":288665,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131609169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Directed Technical Change, Capital Intensity Increase and Energy Transition: Evidence from China","authors":"D. Wong, A. Mugera, B. White","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3284258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3284258","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the causes of China's energy transition since 1978 when the economic reform policy was launched. We aim to determine if increasing capital intensity in the Chinese economy is driving a shift in the energy mix towards modern energy sources, such as solar electricity. The empirical investigation is based on national level time series data from 1978 to 2015. The results of a Granger Causality test show that increasing capital intensity causes transition to modern energy in the long run, but not vice versa. The impulse-response analysis, based on the Johanson cointegration and vector error correction model (VECM), verifies that capital intensity determines energy transition in the long-run and the adjustment period to an exogenous shock from capital intensity is around five years. This is in line with China's National Five-year Plans which often introduce major shifts in energy and industrial policy. We conclude China's energy transition is driven by capital deepening and biased technical change towards capital-intensive modern energy in the long run. The rate of change is increased by exogenous investment shocks partly as a result of policy initiatives introduced by China's Five Year Plans.","PeriodicalId":288665,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123226480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Multifaceted Waste Management Issues in Nigeria: Lagos State as a Case Study.","authors":"D. Akande","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3235345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3235345","url":null,"abstract":"Nigeria is presently experiencing adverse pollution as a result of lack of proper waste management and diverse industrial activities within its environs. The repercussion of this has consequently led to the deplorable state of the environment as well as the low quality of health amongst Nigerians. Solid waste management has become a huge and complex problem due to geometric population growth, urbanization, and industrialization and the rising standard of living. It is evident that solid waste management in Nigeria is plagued with inefficient collection methods, insufficient coverage of the collection system, improper disposal of wastes, lack of institutional coordination, insufficient financial resources, the absence of enforceable regulations and standards, and inappropriate technology. It is therefore pertinent to state that laws and policies, as well as the institutional, political, socio-cultural, financial, economic and technical aspects of solid waste management, should be accorded the requisite attention. This paper points out the health hazards of the wrongful emission of toxic gases as a result of waste burning, the legal framework in place to tackle this menace and the modern and sustainable approach to waste management in Lagos State and Nigeria as a whole.","PeriodicalId":288665,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114631352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Функциональная характеристика и развитие идеи контроля (Functional Characteristics and Development of the Idea of Control)","authors":"Venelin Terziev, Evgeniy Stoyanov","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3145912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3145912","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian Abstract:</b> Эволюция человеческого общества имеет объективную потребность в контроле. Его богатая история доказывает общественную значимость контроля, как необходимого атрибута социальной среды. Появление контроля связано с началом человеческой сознательной деятельности. Развитие и совершенствование контроля связано с 98 достижениями человеческого гения в области социального развития. В связи с этим сущность контроля является научно обоснованой для переосмысления и экспонирования в естественную среде социального окружения, которое развивает и обогащает конкретные формы проявления. Суть контроля является выражением наиболее важной и существенной стороны, определяющей внутреннюю относительную устойчивость и глубину процессов, явлений, отношений, которые проявляются с помощью форм и методов воздействия. <b>English Abstract:</b> The evolution of human society has an objective need for control. Its rich history proves the social importance of control as a necessary attribute of the social environment. The appearance of control is associated with the beginning of human conscious activity. Development and improvement of control is connected with 98 achievements of the human genius in the field of social development. In this connection, the essence of control is scientifically grounded for rethinking and exhibiting in the natural environment of the social environment, which develops and enriches specific forms of manifestation. The essence of control is the expression of the most important and significant aspect that determines the internal relative stability and depth of processes, phenomena, relationships that manifest themselves through the use of forms and methods of influence.","PeriodicalId":288665,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124598002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Was Madras Benighted? : The British Beauracratic Control Over the Swadeshi Press and Political Literature in the Madras Presidency, 1908-1912","authors":"V. Venkatraman","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3152446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3152446","url":null,"abstract":"Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India partitioned Bengal on 16th October 1905 and this move created a strom of protest all over India. The people were aroused by the spirit of nationalism and were determined to fight the British to the end. The nationalists launched the Swadeshi Movement in 1906 and the Indian National Congress declared that year as the “Swadeshi Year�?. ‘Swadeshi’, ‘Boycott’. ‘Swaraj’ and ‘National Education’ were the main objects of the Congress. The Swadeshi Movement which originated in Bengal gradually spread to other parts of the nation. In the Madras Presidency, the Swadeshi nationalists like V.O.Chidambaram Pillai, C.Subramania Bharathi, Dr.Nanjunda Rao, K.Venkatramana Iyengar, Surendranath Arya, Subramania Siva, Neelakanda Bramahchari and others organized meetings to protest against the partition of the Bengal. Finding the Swadeshi Movement gaining momentum, the Government of Madras issued several circulars and ordinances to abrogate the freedom of expression and free criticism. To begin with, the Swadeshi leaders of Madras Presidency were mild in their approach which prompted the British to regard South India as the “benighted Presidency or a slept hollow�?. This trend however changed when Bipin Chandra Pal visited Madras on 1st May 1907. He delivered a series of lectures from 2nd May 1907 at the Marina Beech, Madras. He spoke on concepts like ‘Swaraj’, ‘Swadeshi’ and ‘Boycott’. He made an indelible impression on his listeners. In addition to public meetings B.C.Pal, held private get-togethers wherein only a few trustworthy persons were invited. On receipt of the information regarding the deportation of Lala Lajipat Rai, B.C.Pal cancelled his other engagements in Madras and returned to Calcutta. Thus his lecture tour came to an end abruptly. However, the visit of B.C.Pal infused new vigour into the activities of the nationalists of Madras and whipped up the Swadeshi Movement. The Swadeshi nationalists inspired by the speeches of B.C.Pal, undertook extensive tours of the districts of Madras Presidency and explained to the public the efficacy of the Swadeshi Movement, such sustained propaganda work, the message of Swadeshi began to reach the grass-roots. The nationalist press of the period responded enthusiastically to the call given by the Swadeshi leaders and published articles infavour of the movement. The impact of the movement was such that the student community of the Madras Presidency involved themselves actively in the programmes launched by the Swadeshi leaders. The impact of the Surat split of 1907 was felt in the Madras Presidency. The split gave fillip to the extremist movement. During this period, G.Harshavartom Rao and V.O.Chidambaram Pillai spearheaded the ‘extremist thinking’ respectively in Telugu and Tamil speaking areas of this Presidency. The spirit of nationalism was very vigorous in places like Rajamundry, Masulipatnam and Coconada in Andhra region; and Tinnavelly and Tuticorin in Tamil country. Swad","PeriodicalId":288665,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114967104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bond Yield Spillovers from Major Advanced Economies to Emerging Asia","authors":"A. Belke, I. Dubova, Ulrich Volz","doi":"10.1111/1468-0106.12256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0106.12256","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the extent to which changes to long-term interest rates in major advanced economies have influenced long-term government bond yields in Emerging Asia. To gauge long-term interest spillover effects, the paper uses VAR variance decompositions with high frequency data. Our results reveal that sovereign bond yields in Emerging Asia responded significantly to changes to US and Eurozone bond yields, although the magnitudes were heterogeneous across countries. The size of spillovers varied over time. The pattern of these variations can partially be explained by the implementation of different unconventional monetary policy measures in advanced countries.","PeriodicalId":288665,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129130087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in India","authors":"Ghanasham S. Joshi, Raju Laxman Hyderabad","doi":"10.34218/jom.6.1.2019.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34218/jom.6.1.2019.001","url":null,"abstract":"Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (CSR) has gained a lot of importance in recent years. This study is an attempt to investigate various determinants of CSR disclosures in India. The study examines whether CSR disclosures are influenced by a group of factors like size of the company, profitability, leverage, board size and age of the firm. In order to achieve the study objectives, a 20-item CSR Index is designed after rigorous content analysis of annual reports of 199 companies forming part of NIFTY Large Midcap 250 index for seven fiscal years from 2011 to 2017. The findings of the study reveal a positive and significant association between size of the firm, board size and age and CSRD and a negative and insignificant relationship between profitability, leverage and CSRD is also observed","PeriodicalId":288665,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114195299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sesgos Comportamentales Y Desigualdad En Economías Emergentes: Una Explicación Del Exceso De Volatilidad Del Consumo Agregado (Behavioral Biases and Inequality in Emerging Markets: An Explanation to the Excess Volatility of Consumption)","authors":"Andres Villa-Diaz","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3127780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3127780","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Spanish Abstract:</b> El modelo de ciclos reales desarrollado en este artículo busca explicar el exceso de volatilidad del consumo relativo al producto en países de América Latina. El modelo incorpora dos características presentes en estas economías: altos niveles de desigualdad de ingreso y un sesgo hacia el presente que responde a choques de productividad. El modelo da una explicación alternativa a la falta de ajuste del modelo estándar a los hechos estilizados de economías en vía de desarrollo y logra predecir un exceso de volatilidad de hasta 20 puntos porcentuales del consumo con respecto al producto, consistente con el promedio de las economías latinoamericanas. <b>English Abstract:</b> The Real Business Cycle Model developed throughout this article aims to explain the excess volatility of consumption with respect to income seen in Latin American countries. The model includes two featured characteristics of these economies: high levels of income inequality and present-biased time preferences that respond to total factor productivity shocks. The model gives an alternative explanation to the traditional RBC model's incongruities with the stylized facts from developing economies and manages to predict an excess volatility of up to 20 percentage points of consumption with respect to income, in line with an estimated average for five Latin American countries.","PeriodicalId":288665,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125515030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards an Environmental Approach to Control Urban Communities in Arid Zone Green Elements Oriented Development","authors":"S. Hassanien","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3162351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3162351","url":null,"abstract":"Green Cities is an idea that should be applied to our Urban Communities as soon as Possible to reduce carbon dioxide, and to provide city inhabitants with good and clean environment. The reduce of the Traffic which depend on the non-clean energy, and increase pedestrian movements is one of the important methods to achieve this goal and principals of the green, add to that the exploit of clean renewable energy, and the use of materials which reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions. To achieve the goals of the Green City it should be linked to the urban development by providing the natural oxygen generators include Green covers and trees which must be counted to determine the population, densities as well as the planning units in relation to green elements within the city in order to compensate produced oxygen equivalent of the city population. The search aims to provide an environmental approach through which can control the city elements in terms of density, number of population and planning Hierarchical zones, based on the principle of compensating emissions of CO2 with Oxygen by greenery.","PeriodicalId":288665,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127726692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Content Act Synergy; A Comparative Syndrome","authors":"Temitayo Bello","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3067261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3067261","url":null,"abstract":"The Local Content Act is a legislation with an indigenous frontier for the integration of Nigerians in the activities of foreign players in the petroleum industry in Nigeria, thereby providing a solution to the long exclusion of local participants in the industry. The article examined the Content Act as a proposition for radical transformation in the petroleum industry with intentional effort towards the inclusion of local man power and resources. The article revealed that the Content Act has been established as a welcome development, as Nigerian companies now play a significant role in Oil and Gas activities across board, even as engineering plants and companies, which were hitherto dormant. The article established the creation of the monitoring board saddled with the responsibility to monitor compliance with the Content Act and exert necessary sanctions for failure to comply with the Act, has been able to efficiently ensure the compliance of players in the petroleum industry.","PeriodicalId":288665,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Economics: Environmental & Social Aspects eJournal","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123473861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}