Rapid urbanization, poor solid waste management and inadequate maintenance of water can lead to flooding, scarcity, pollution, adverse health effects rehabilitation costs that may overwhelm the resilience cities. Cities face significant difficulties as a result these megatrends, cost inactivity is considerable. A capacity building programme was conducted with purpose be strategic step in Urban ...

An extensive literature concerned with optimal depletion of an exhaustible resource, with only a few exceptions, ignores the economy-wide and sectoral distribution effects of resource depletion. This paper presents a dynamic computable general equilibrium model to link the underlying natural resource base to economic performance. The model consists of an intra-temporal price endogenous model of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate program management teams’ views on issues and challenges in managing a large, multi-sectoral child health promotion program in Sweden. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 17 participants representing two autonomous program management teams, one strategic and one operational, were interviewed. Analysis of interview data was complemented w...

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As Southeast Asia (SEA) is characterized by high human and domestic animal densities, growing intensification of trade, drastic land use changes and biodiversity erosion, this region appears to be a hotspot to study complex dynamics of zoonoses emergence and health issues at the Animal-Human-Environment interface. Zoonotic diseases and environmental health issues can have devastating socioecono...

We present a new multi-sector growth model that features nonhomothetic, constantelasticity-of-substitution preferences, and accommodates long-run demand and supply drivers of structural change. The model generates a log-linear relationship between relative sectoral demand and real income, implying non-vanishing nonhomotheticities for all income levels. The model is consistent with the decline i...

Climate change adaptation (CCA) requires the design of institutions and policies that integrate efficiency, equity, and effectiveness (EEE) objectives of systems at national and sub-national levels. Multi-level and multi-sectoral perspectives are offered in this paper incorporating the following dimensions: normative aspects of institutions, mechanisms for resource allocation, role of transacti...

Twelve kinds of special semipositive matrices and their basic characters are presented. Employing these matrices and the previous results in Zeng (2008), we research the conditions for the balances between final output values and values-added, and between input multipliers and output multipliers in an economy. A necessary and sufficient condition that (i) there exists a unique vector of output ...

This paper theoretically and empirically examines how industrial structure affects equity home bias. I embed portfolio choice in a multi-country, multi-sector Eaton-Kortum model in order to explore how sectoral productivity differences affect a country’s risk exposure and hence influence home bias. The model predicts that investors from highly specialized economies who want to hedge their risk ...