In this paper, we show that the commonly observed decline in primary (natural resource using) sector output and employment shares, often termed structural change, can be explained as an endogenous response to the presence ...

The effort to correct the national accounts in order calculate NNP or related ‘Green GDP’ concepts, known as natural resources accounting, has been a lively research area in the last decade. Two basic methodologies have ...

This issue of the FAL Bulletin explores a number of challenges and potential opportunities for inland waterway development in South America. The main focus of the discussion is on financing and policy challenges for efforts ...

This paper investigates the nexus between China's natural resource rents and R&D expenditure from 1989 to 2021, considering economic growth as a confounding variable. The analysis employs an array of time series methodologies ...

In this article we examined the economical options adopted by the Brazilian State in the use of the water, biomass and petroleum for the generation of energy in the period 1992 to 2012 observing the existence of the demand ...

Una estrategia de sostenibilidad financiera debe ser concebida como un instrumento para la toma de decisiones en el manejo y aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales. Es importante mejorar la capacidad en el ámbito de ...

Mining activities have been carried out for thousands of years and nowadays have an enormous worldwide use to obtain important metals of industrial use. These include copper, iron, gold and several others. Although modern ...