Impact Assessment Research Centre (IARC) Working Papers

Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) is an increasingly accepted form of strategic impact assessment, and has recently been adopted, for example, as the preferred metho [...]

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling represents a powerful tool for hypothesising possible sustainability outcomes that might be triggered with the implementati [...]

Applied general equilibrium modelling represents a powerful tool for assessing future likely economic changes due to upcoming or hypothesised policy shocks such as those [...]

This paper assesses the impact of environmental regulation in host countries on Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) decision-making. It tests the pollution haven hyp [...]

Joining the European Union club implies, among many other policy changes, full integration of Romania's economy into EU's customs union. This is expected to have signific [...]

At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, governments undertook to develop and adopt national sustainable development strategies, as a key component of implementing the goals of A [...]

In the last decade, a fundamental phenomenon came to the fore in the business environment: more and more companies are offering total solutions to their customer instead [...]

When policymakers and practitioners decide that "empowerment" - usually of women or the poor - is a development goal what do they mean? And how do they determine the exte [...]