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Policy makers are sometimes faced with the challenge of making decisions based on the choice of biomass feedstocks to promote. As such, the book presents an examination of trade-off decisions that sometimes have to be made between the choices of feedstock needed to achieve the desired economic, social and ecological sustainability. In this book, readers find very resourceful information on the critical assessment and discussions on biomass as a feedstock across three major themes: production practices, technologies and environmental impacts. It gives useful insight into relatively unexplored p

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This paper investigates the effect of timeliness in accessing the intermediate inputs on the trade pattern. In particular, any country that has a higher ability to transport goods on time has a comparative advantage in industries that place a higher value on the timely delivery of their inputs, and this comparative advantage pattern is stronger for processed goods than for primary goods. To do this, a measure for how intensively any industry demands for the timely delivery of its intermediate inputs is constructed combining Hummels and Schaur (2013)’s calculations of the time sensitivity of products with the input-output tables.

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Commercial statistics --- Farm produce --- Mineral industries --- Primary commodities --- Produce trade --- Agricultural marketing --- Agricultural products --- Food trade --- Basic commodities --- Commodities, Basic --- Commodities, Primary --- Primary products --- Extractive industries --- Extractive industry --- Metal industries --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Mining industry --- Mining industry and finance --- Agricultural commodities --- Produce --- Agriculture --- Food industry and trade --- Commodity exchanges --- Commercial products --- Industries --- Food --- Raw materials --- Plant products --- Economic aspects

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Countries with an abundance of natural resources, many of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, often show a record of relatively poor economic performance compared with non-resource-rich countries. The chapters in this volume explore the potential challenges to countries with abundant natural resources and ways to manage these challenges so as to reap the benefits of resource wealth while avoiding the pitfalls. The book is divided into five sections, which explore commodity markets and the macroeconomy, economic diversification and the role of finance, fiscal policy, exchange rates and financial stability, and governance. The ideas in this book were first presented at a seminar in November 2010 that was aimed primarily at policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa and brought together ministers, central bank governors, other senior policymakers, and well-known academics.

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Would the world be a better place if human societies were somehow able to curb their desires for material goods? Saleem Ali's pioneering book links human wants and needs by providing a natural history of consumption and materialism with scientific detail and humanistic nuance. It argues that simply disavowing consumption of materials is not likely to help in planning for a resource-scarce future, given global inequality, development imperatives, and our goals for a democratic global society. Rather than suppress the creativity and desire to discover that is often embedded in the exploration and production of material goods-which he calls "the treasure impulse"-Ali proposes a new environmental paradigm, one that accepts our need to consume "treasure" for cultural and developmental reasons, but warns of our concomitant need to conserve. In evaluating the impact of treasure consumption on resource-rich countries, he argues that there is a way to consume responsibly and alleviate global poverty.

Consumption (Economics) --- Sustainable development. --- Environmental policy. --- Natural resources --- Raw materials --- Conservation of natural resources. --- Environmental aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Conservation of resources --- Natural resources conservation --- Resources conservation, Natural --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Conservation --- Economic aspects --- Government policy --- Environmental aspects --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Primary commodities --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Environmental auditing --- Economic development --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Conservation of natural resources --- Environmental policy --- 174 --- 313 --- 338.013 --- 339.320 --- 355 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Verband tussen de ethiek en de economie. Ethiek en bedrijf --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën) --- Belang, verdeling en beleid van de natuurlijke rijkdommen. Grondstoffen --- Consumptie: algemeenheden. Wet van de vraag in verband met de consumptie. Consumptiebehoefte. Behoeftetheorie --- Milieu