Will Xi help Trump re-enter the Paris Agreement?
Will Xi help Trump re-enter the Paris Agreement? Climate Wire Kevin P. Gallagher quoted December 7, 2017
Author: Isabel Alvarez Medina
Could Trade Treaties Trump Green Jobs? Upper and Lower Bounds on Clean-Energy Employment Under Varying Trade Policies
A common argument for renewable energy is that it leads to job creation in the country or region where it is located. Yet this clean-energy boost to local employment could be at risk under World Trade Organization (WTO) rulings that prohibit favoritism for local producers. In a working paper for the Working Group on Trade, […]
Policy Space for Jobs and Clean Energy: Trade, Investment Rules, and Local Content Requirements in Renewable Energy Policies
In an effort to address chronic inequality, air pollution, and climate change in an integrative manner, many nations have deployed Local Content Requirements (LCRs). In the five years following the 2008 Financial Crisis, twenty such policies were put in place all over the world. These policies are justified on both economic and political grounds—by correcting […]
Why Latin America Nations Fail: Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century
University of California Press (October 2017) Kevin P. Gallagher and Research Fellow Rebecca Ray chapter contribution. Book description: The question of development is a major topic in courses across the social sciences and history, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment […]
Moon Shot
Moon Shot Geographical Magazine Julie Klinger quoted August 2017
Designing more effective resettlement programs: Lessons from transmigration in Indonesia
By Samuel Bazzi, Arya Gaduh and Alex Rothenberg VoxDev, August 8, 2017
Regulating Capital Flows in Emerging Markets: the IMF and the Global Financial Crisis
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Yuan Tian. Review of Development Finance, June 2017. Read the paper
The Restructuring of South American Soy and Beef Production and Trade Under Changing Environmental Regulations
In response to the extensive loss of forests caused by soy and cattle expansion in South America, national governments have increased their legal restrictions on deforestation and passed new legislation to further their enforcement of conservation efforts. A potential concern is that the new laws, which are geographically restricted, will generate spillover agricultural activity and […]
To Eliminate Deforestation in South America, Reduce Differences in Regulations Across Regions and Actors
The expansion of soy and cattle production has caused extensive deforestation in South American biomes such as the Amazon, the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest and the Gran Chaco. This has prompted the emergence of new environmental governance initiatives, including: reducing the amount of forest that can be legally cleared, improving the ability of enforcement agencies […]
Social and ecological analysis of commercial integrated crop livestock systems: Current knowledge and remaining uncertainty
By R.D. Garrett, M.T. Nilesb, J.D.B. Gila, A. Gaudin, R. Chaplin-Kramer, A. Assmann, T.S. Assmann, K. Brewere, P.C. de Faccio Carvalho, O. Cortner, R. Dynes, K. Garbach, E. Kebreab, N. Mueller, C. Peterson, J.C. Reis, V. Snow, J. Valenti Agricultural Systems, 2018.