Our most pressing environmental challenge is not how many people the planet can support, but rather how many cellphone-toting, satellite-TV-watching, gas-guzzler driving members of the middle class it can bear.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 23, 2013
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Tanzania is one developing country that could actually benefit from climate change by increasing exports of corn to the U.S. and other nations, according to a study by researchers at Stanford University, the World Bank and ...
Economics & Business
Jul 27, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When global food prices rose sharply starting in late 2010 and hit an all-time high in February, many leaders, including the presidents of the World Bank and of France, spoke about the increases and conflated ...
Other
Jul 15, 2011
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A dollar is a dollar is a dollar, so goes the economic theory of fungibility. But do people really act that way? In a new working paper, Brown University economist Justine Hastings and Jesse Shapiro of Chicago Booth School ...
Economics & Business
May 12, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Countries rich in oil have long been associated with the "resource-curse paradox" - a principle which states they will suffer, rather than benefit, in the long run. Not so, new research by a Cambridge Gates ...
Economics & Business
Apr 11, 2011
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(AP) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday.
Environment
Nov 12, 2009
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The world's demand for natural gas is set to decline slightly in 2022 as a result of higher prices and market disruptions caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to the International Energy Agency's latest quarterly ...
Economics & Business
Apr 15, 2022
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Embattled commodities trader Noble Group has completed a $3.5 billion restructuring, it said Thursday, as the firm seeks to draw a line under a long-running crisis that pushed it to the brink of bankruptcy.
Business
Dec 20, 2018
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Trade and financial shocks in the form of collapsing commodity prices and reduced availability of external financing have worsened Latin America's economic prospects in the past year, according to an issue brief from Rice ...
Economics & Business
Nov 18, 2015
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Dairy farmers are being urged to diversify their farms to protect profit margins amid declining rainfall and fluctuating production costs.
Environment
Mar 28, 2014
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