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  • Read Now: “Black gold and green BRI–A grounded analysis of Chinese investment in coal-fired power plants in Indonesia”

    By Bowen Gu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101411 Highlights First countrywide analysis of socio-environmental conflicts over coal-fired power plants with Chinese investment. Demonstrates how the politics from below shapes BRI energy infrastructure investment in practice. Analyzes the uneven development of CFPPs in …

  • Pigou tax

    The Pigou tax (also called Pigouvian tax) is a tax that has been proposed to be applied to market participants that generate costs for others (e.g. other market participants) through …

  • Human Development Index (HDI)

    The Human Development Index (HDI) is an indicator system which was developed to shift the focus of development economics from national income accounting to people centered policies. Its purpose is …

  • Biopiracy

    Biopiracy is a situation in which indigenous knowledge of nature, originating with indigenous peoples, is used by others for profit, without permission from and with little or no compensation or recognition …

  • Governing the commons

    In economic literature the term commons (resources used by many individuals in common in an agreed way) was used for decades in a context of Tragedy of the Commons. In …