Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
at Columbia University in the City of New York
February 18, 2011 Political Economy of Sustainable Development
Project by Jose Carlos Orihuela (completed thesis): Journeys inquire why and how mineral-rich Chile and Peru joined in the international trend of good green governance. Behind formal governance convergence hides effective institutional divergence: a relatively strong and autonomous green state…
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February 18, 2011 Ecosystem Services, Political Economy of Sustainable Development, Water Resource Management
Project by Xiaojia Bao: This paper initially built a theoretical model for governments’ fiscal response with respect to the distributive impacts of dams along a river basin. The model claimed that upstream counties should get compensated, while downstream counties should…
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January 27, 2011 Political Economy of Sustainable Development
Project by Aly Sanoh This paper addresses three unresolved questions in the literature of public finance and development. First, it uses exogenous variation in rainfall across municipalities in Mali to estimate the causal effect of household income shocks on municipal…
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