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An Analysis of the Links between Foreign Aid and Co2 Emissions in Cities

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Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

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In Chap. 6, Sandrine Kablan looks at what kinds of foreign aid practices have the best potential to work towards the achievement of green cities. She reflects on how innovative and promising these programs, initiatives and practices are, in order for them to be scaled up and made transferable across countries based on the existing literature and case studies spanning various urban sectors: urban design and public policy on buildings and infrastructure, transport, pollution and waste treatment; as well as energy supply, water supply and sewage. In addition, she employs an econometric panel data analysis covering 144 developing countries over the period 2002–11 to check the effectiveness of foreign aid in curbing the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions from buildings in urban centers, through investment in renewable energy sources. Kablan finds that foreign aid helps in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, especially associated with residential buildings as well as commercial and public services—thus contributing to greener cities.

The author is grateful to the attendees of the sustainable economic development seminar at Ecole Polytechnique and especially to Eric Strobl and Patrick Lenain for their helpful comments.

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    Those data where directly taken from Kretschmer et al. (2013). The period span is 1973–2005.

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  1. University Paris-Est Créteil, Paris, France

    Sandrine Kablan

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  1. NDRC People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

    Yongfu Huang

  2. Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Leioa, Spain

    Unai Pascual

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Table 6.2 Descriptive statistics
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Table 6.3 Correlation matrix
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Table 6.4 Some robustness checks on the impact of foreign aid on carbon dioxide emissions in cities of developing countries, whole sample
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Table 6.5 Some robustness checks on the impact of foreign aid on carbon dioxide emissions in middle-income countries
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Table 6.6 Some robustness checks on the impact of foreign aid on carbon dioxide emissions in least developed countries
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Kablan, S. (2018). An Analysis of the Links between Foreign Aid and Co2 Emissions in Cities. In: Huang, Y., Pascual, U. (eds) Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5379-5_6

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