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Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries: Updated Estimates, 1970 - 2010 (with Léonce Ndikumana), PERI Working Papers (2012)
The performance of Sub-Saharan African economies over the past decade has inspired optimism on the...
Comment on Khan, Li and Weisbrot (Thomas Weisskopf Festschrift Conference Paper), PERI Working Papers (2012)
Boyce comments on Shahrukh Khan's " The Military and Economic Development in Pakistan, Minqi Li's...
Capital Flight from North African Countries (with Léonce Ndikumana), PERI Working Papers (2012)
Ndikumana and Boyce demonstrate that, while the countries of North Africa have achieved high levels...
Cooling the Planet, Clearing the Air: Climate Policy, Carbon Pricing, and Co-Benefits (with Manuel Pastor), PERI Working Papers (2012)
Policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions can yield substantial co-benefits via reduced emissions of co-pollutants...
Reflections on Development Economics: An Interview with Keith Griffin, PERI Working Papers (2011)
In an interview conducted by James Boyce for the journal Development and Change, Keith Griffin...
Financing Peace: International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States (with Shepard Forman), PERI Working Papers (2010)
This background paper for the World Bank’s World Development Report 2011 discusses current financing arrangements...
CLEAR Economics: State-Level Impacts of the Carbon Limits and Energy for America’s Renewal Act on Family Incomes and Jobs (with Matthew Riddle), PERI Working Papers (2010)
James K. Boyce and Matthew Riddle have updated earlier anlysis that examines the household-level impacts...
Economic Inequality and Environmental Quality: Evidence of Pollution Shifting in Russia (with Marina S. Vornovytskyy.), PERI Working Papers (2010)
This paper utilizes the Russian Statistical Agency's data on air pollution in Russia to analyze...
Is Environmental Justice Good for White Folks? (with Michael Ash, Grace Chang, and Helen Scharber), Economics Department Working Paper Series (2010)
This paper examines spatial variations in exposure to toxic air pollution from industrial facilities in...
Senate Testimony on Cap-and-Dividend Policies, PERI Working Papers (2009)
In this testimony presented to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, James Boyce describes the range...
Justice in the Air: Tracking Toxic Pollution from America's Industries and Companies to our States, Cities and Neighborhoods (with Grace Chang, Manuel Pastor, Justin Scoggins, and Jennifer Tran), Political Economy Research Institute (2009)
Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance (with Michael Ash), PERI Working Papers (2009)
Measures of corporate environmental justice performance can be a valuable tool in e orts to promote...
Keeping the Government Whole: The Impact of a Cap-and-Dividend Policy for Curbing Global Warming on Government Revenue and Expenditure (with Matthew Riddle), PERI Working Papers (2008)
When the United States puts a cap on carbon emissions as part of the effort...
New Estimates of Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries: Linkages with External Borrowing and Policy Options (with Léonce Ndikumana), PERI Working Papers (2008)
Post-Conflict Recovery: Resource Mobilization and Peacebuilding, PERI Working Papers (2008)
Societies embarked on the fragile transition from war to peace face enormous economic, social, and...
Cap and Dividend: How to Curb Global Warming While Protecting the Incomes Of American Families (with Matthew Riddle), PERI Working Papers (2007)
This essay examines the distributional effects of a “cap-and-dividend” policy for reducing carbon emission in...
Is Inequality Bad for the Environment?, PERI Working Papers (2007)
By respecting nature’s limits and investing in nature’s wealth, we can protect and enhance the...
Public Finance, Aid, and Post-Conflict Recovery, Economics Department Working Paper Series (2007)
In the wake of violent conflict, a key element of building a durable peace is...
Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina (with Robert Bullard, Alice Fothergill, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Beverly Wright), Race, Poverty and the Environment (2006)
A Chinese Sky Trust? Distributional Impacts of Carbon Charges and Revenue Recycling in China (with Matthew Riddle), PERI Working Papers (2005)
The introduction of carbon charges on the use of fossil fuels in China would have...
A Chinese Sky Trust? Distributional Impacts of Carbon Charges and Revenue Recycling in China (with Mark Brenner and Matthew Riddle), PERI Working Papers (2005)
The introduction of carbon charges on the use of fossil fuels in China would have...
Land Reform and Sustainable Development (with Peter Rosset and Elizabeth A, Stanton), PERI Working Papers (2005)
Land reform – the reallocation of rights to establish a more equitable distribution of farmland...
A Future for Small Farms? Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture, PERI Working Papers (2004)
Small farms play a crucial role in conserving the agricultural biodiversity that underpins longterm food...
Aid, Conditionality, and War Economies, Economics Department Working Paper Series (2004)
When natural resource revenues provide an important motive and/or means for armed conflict, the transition...
Green and Brown? Globalization and The Environment, Economics Department Working Paper Series (2004)
Globalization – viewed as a process of economic integration that embraces governance as well as...
Inequality and Environmental Protection, PERI Working Papers (2003)
Social and economic inequalities can influence both the distribution of the costs and benefits from...
Where Credit Is Due: Allocating Credit to Advance Environmental Goals, Challenge (2002)
Credit allocation is a potentially useful instrument for environmental policy. The authors propose the establishment...
Public Debts and Private Assets: Explaining Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries (with Léonce Ndikumana), Economics Department Working Paper Series (2002)
We investigate the determinants of capital flight from 30 sub-Saharan African countries, including 24 countries...
Is Africa a Net Creditor? New Estimates of Capital Flight from Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-1996 (with Léonce Ndikumana), Economics Department Working Paper Series (2000)
This paper presents estimates of capital flight from 25 low-income sub-Saharan African countries in the...
Let Them Eat Risk? Wealth, Rights, and Disaster Vulnerability, PERI Working Papers (2000)
Disaster-vulnerability reduction is an impure public good: when provided to one it is provided to...