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Stakeholders workshop for Inclusive Green Economy

Stakeholders discussed perspectives on reforms for reduced biomass dependence in Tanzania

The IGE Tanzania team organized a one-day stakeholders’ workshop designed to provide a platform for…

Gunnar Köhlin

“All of us must do our utmost to help reach the goals”

The United Nations climate summit COP28 kicks off on November 30 in Dubai. EfD’s Director, Gunnar…

COP28

EfD and MCC will host side event at COP28

EfD and MCC will jointly host a side event at COP28 in Dubai. The event, which features an…

Yonas Alem

Vietnamese researchers explore randomized controlled trials in EfD workshop

Thirty-two Vietnamese researchers embarked on a journey into the world of randomized controlled…

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SETI co-leader Marc Jeuland opened the EfD Seminar Series

Marc Jeuland, applied environmental economist, presented his research titled Time-money tradeoffs…

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Many attended EfD's inaugural webinar with Marc Jeuland

EfD kicked off its webinar series with a presentation on Time-money tradeoffs and the value of the…

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Kenneth Kigundu Macharia earns his doctorate in Economics.

Kenneth Kigundu Macharia successfully graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of…

Agustin Petroni

Survey Solutions revolutionizes data management for EfD

EfD is implementing Survey Solutions, a free digital platform from the World Bank, to streamline and…

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Ideology and Rifles: The Agrarian Origins of Civil Conflict in Colombia

We investigate the relationship between the historical dispossession of peasants’ lands by landlords that led to the…

4 Oct 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

What drives the substitution of hazardous flame retardants in electronic appliances in Sweden?

Highlights We identify the relative importance of different drivers of firms’ preferences for chemical substitution. The…

18 Aug 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden, Global Hub

Policy Nook — Policy Note: Benefit Cost Analysis of Water Investments in the Anthropocene

Introduction Water management is becoming increasingly challenging. The core problem in many locations is an old one…

22 Nov 2023 | Peer Reviewed |

Business owners in Tanzania are willing to pay more for an improved electricity supply

Topic: Stated Preferences with Survey Consequentiality and Outcome Uncertainty: A Split Sample Discrete Choice…

20 Nov 2023 | Research Brief |

Barriers to off-grid energy development: Evidence from a comparative survey of private sector energy service providers in Eastern Africa

Abstract In light of recent growth and falling costs of solar photovoltaic technology, this paper examines the barriers…

19 Oct 2023 | Peer Reviewed | Uganda

Stated preferences with survey consequentiality and outcome uncertainty – A split sample discrete choice experiment

Abstract Stated preference studies are often based on the assumptions that proposed outcomes would be realized with…

16 Oct 2023 | EfD Discussion Paper | Tanzania

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Call for Paper: NESS 2024

The 16th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, hosted by Åbo Akademi University in…

Special Issue on “Digital media data in environment and development economics”

Submission Deadline: 31 January 2024 Environment and Development Economics seeks to publish a…

Special Issue on “Challenges for the development of Latin America in the Anthropocene: current research in environmental economics”

Environment and Development Economics seeks to publish a special issue on challenges for the…

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EfD Seminar Series 2023 - Marc Jeuland

21 November 2023

Listen to the message from Vice President of the African Development Bank to EfD

26 October 2023

Water - a documentary by EfD Kenya

2 March 2023

The 16th EfD Annual Meeting, day 3. Policy talk by Haileselassie Medhin, WRI. Keynote by Pam Jagger

29 September 2022

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Preserving garlic

If we miss the context policies may be toothless

Around the world, governments are fighting poverty, environmental degradation, and many other…

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Every choice counts: Changing our consumption and production patterns

From an individual perspective, climate change may be perceived as distant or difficult to…

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Effects of climate shocks on sectoral inequality

Over the last three decades, agricultural and industrial sector workers have suffered consumption…

Water cleaning

How to reform the water sector in Ho Chi Minh city: Lessons from Phnom Penh

The reform of the water sector requires the consensus of the people and a reasonable change…

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