Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, and "Development Traps"

Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, and "Development Traps"

This paper examines the possibility of environmental "development traps," or "brown poverty traps," caused by interactions between the impacts of climate change and increasing returns in the development of "clean-technology...

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Main Authors:	Golub, Alexander, Toman, Michael
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCUMULATION OF CARBON ADVERSE IMPACTS APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY ATMOSPHERE CAPITA INCOME CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CAPITAL GOODS CAPITAL INPUT CAPITAL INVESTMENT CAPITAL STOCK CAPITAL STOCKS CARBON CARBON DIOXIDE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS CARBON INTENSITY CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE DAMAGES CO CO2 CONSTANT RATE CONSTANT RETURNS CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE CONSUMPTION INCREASES CONVERGENCE DAMAGES DEBT DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIMINISHING RETURNS DIMINISHING RETURNS TO SCALE DISCOUNT RATE DISCOUNT RATES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC DYNAMICS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMIES OF SCALE ECONOMISTS ELASTICITY EMISSION EMISSION INTENSITY EMISSION PERMITS EMISSIONS EMISSIONS INTENSITY ENERGY USE ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTS EXOGENOUS PARAMETERS EXTERNALITY FACTORS OF PRODUCTION FINANCIAL SUPPORT FUTURE CONSUMPTION GHG GHGS GREENHOUSE GREENHOUSE GAS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS GREENHOUSE GASES GROSS INVESTMENT GROSS OUTPUT GROWTH MODEL GROWTH MODELS GROWTH PATH GROWTH PROBLEM GROWTH THEORY HUMAN CAPITAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE INCOME INCOME LEVELS INCOME PER CAPITA INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INDUSTRIALIZATION LABOR FORCE LOW-CARBON LOWER DISCOUNT RATE MARGINAL UTILITY NATURAL CAPITAL NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS NATURAL RESOURCE SCARCITY NATURAL RESOURCES NEGATIVE IMPACT NET OUTPUT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OPPORTUNITY COST OPTIMIZATION PH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLLUTION POPULATION GROWTH PP PRESENT VALUE PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY OF CAPITAL SCENARIOS SHADOW PRICE STRUCTURAL CHANGE SUBSTITUTION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL CHANGE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY INCREASES TOTAL CONSUMPTION UNCERTAINTIES UNIT OF CAPITAL UTILITY FUNCTION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/19736812/climate-change-industrial-transformation-development-traps http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19373

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/19736812/climate-change-industrial-transformation-development-traps
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19373

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