Estimating Infrastructure Financing Needs in the Asia-Pacific Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States

Assessing the Economic Vulnerability of Small Island Developing States and the Least Developed Countries

Macro vulnerability of the small island developing states (SIDS) as well as of least developed countries (LDCs) has been an increasing concern for the international community. This concern has led to the creation of the economic vulnerability index (EVI) in order to assess comparatively the degree of structural economic vulnerability of countries. Structural vulnerability results mainly from na...

Financing small-scale infrastructure investments in developing countries

In most developing countries a shortage of long-term, local-currency fi nancing for small-scale infrastructure projects impedes local economic development. Inadequate fi scal transfers, little own source revenue and low creditworthiness make it diffi cult for local governments to fully fund projects on their own. Th is paper proposes the use of project fi nance as a means to attract fi nancing ...

Tourism Impact on Air Pollution in Developed and Developing Countries

T he main purpose of this paper is to investigate and compare the impact of tourism on air pollution in selected developed and developing countries during the period of 1995-2014. To this end, at first, the model was designed based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) assumptions and with the presence of the major influencing factors on air pollution along with the international ...

Biodiversity Valuation in Developing Countries: A Focus on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

The Millennium Development Goals explicitly recognise “sustainable development” as a target. A step towards this is a greater understanding of the significant role of biodiversity in rural communities of developing countries who depend most on the ecosystem goods and services and who as a result may suffer most from its continued degradation. Understanding the input of biodiversity in developin...

Health financing in developing and transitional countries