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Financing Peace: International And National Resources For Postconflict Countries And Fragile States, James K. Boyce, Shepard Forman
Financing Peace: International And National Resources For Postconflict Countries And Fragile States, James K. Boyce, Shepard Forman
James K. Boyce
This background paper for the World Bank’s World Development Report 2011 discusses current financing arrangements for postconflict countries and fragile states, with a focus on official development assistance. In recent years a consensus has emerged that in these “difficult environments” the core objective is to build effective and legitimate governance structures that secure public confidence through provision of personal security, equal justice and the rule of law, economic well-being, and essential social services including education and health. Yet tensions persist between business-as-usual development policies on the one hand and policies responsive to the demands of peacebuilding on the other. The …
Clear Economics: State-Level Impacts Of The Carbon Limits And Energy For America’S Renewal Act On Family Incomes And Jobs, James K. Boyce, Matthew Riddle
Clear Economics: State-Level Impacts Of The Carbon Limits And Energy For America’S Renewal Act On Family Incomes And Jobs, James K. Boyce, Matthew Riddle
James K. Boyce
James K. Boyce and Matthew Riddle have updated earlier anlysis that examines the household-level impacts of a cap-and-dividend plan, and how they differ between states. In this paper, the authors not only consider the specific parameters of the 2010 CLEAR Act, but also add an assessment of the state-by-state job creation that would have resulted from the bill. Boyce & Riddle find that interstate differences in the bill’s impact on household incomes would have been small: much smaller than differences across the income spectrum, and vastly smaller than the differences in other federal programs, such as defense spending. As a …
Is Environmental Justice Good For White Folks?, Michael Ash, James K. Boyce, Grace Chang, Helen Scharber
Is Environmental Justice Good For White Folks?, Michael Ash, James K. Boyce, Grace Chang, Helen Scharber
James K. Boyce
This paper examines spatial variations in exposure to toxic air pollution from industrial facilities in urban areas of the United States, using geographic microdata from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators project. We find that average exposure in an urban area is positively correlated with the extent of racial and ethnic disparity in the distribution of the exposure burden. This correlation could arise from causal linkages in either or both directions: the ability to displace pollution onto minorities may lower the effective cost of pollution for industrial firms; and higher average pollution burdens may induce whites to invest …