Sustainable Energy-Environmental Policy Options for the Developing World

While Singapore is grappling with policy options to sustain its success over the next 50 years, the developing world is wondering what made it such a success so far. By looking at some developing countries that are stuck in a roller-coaster ride of economic development I highlight some policy lessons they can learn from Singapore's success story. In a nutshell, as pointed out by Singapore's economic architect, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, non-economic factors matter more than the economic factors for a successful take-off of a developing economy. The paper also highlights some complementary development strategies that are instructive to developing economies.

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Skea, Prof. James Ferguson, (born 1 Sept. 1953), Professor of Sustainable Energy, Centre for Environmental Policy, since 2009, and Research Councils UK Energy Programme Strategy Fellow, since 2012, Imperial College London

10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.10000182 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Environmental Policy ◽

Sustainable Energy ◽

Imperial College ◽

Research Councils

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Market and Welfare Impacts of Agri-Environmental Policy Options in the Malaysian Rice Sector

Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ◽

10.22452/mjes.vol54no2.1 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 179-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Yaghoob Jafari ◽

Jamal Othman ◽

Arnim Kuhn

Keyword(s):

Environmental Policy ◽

Policy Options ◽

Welfare Impacts

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Rauch ohne Feuer: Why Germany Lags in Tobacco Control

German Politics & Society ◽

10.3167/104503003782353411 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 24-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Alice H. Cooper ◽

Paulette Kurzer

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Environmental Policy ◽

Tobacco Control ◽

Large Scale ◽

Developing World ◽

Consumer Product ◽

Illegal Drugs ◽

Preventable Death ◽

Road Accidents

The puzzle explored in this article is why Germany, in spite of itssuperb record in environmental policy and health care, has systematicallythwarted measures to reduce smoking rates. At this point,thousands of large-scale epidemiological findings demonstrate a relationshipbetween smoking and disease. Moreover, unlike alcohol,there is no safe amount of smoking. Cigarettes kill, and smoking isthe single largest source of preventable death in advanced industrializedstates. By various estimates, tobacco kills 500,000 Europeansper year, including 120,000 Germans. Globally, in the years 2025 to2030, smoking will kill 7 million people in the developing world and3 million in the industrialized world. No other consumer product isas dangerous as tobacco, which kills more people than AIDS, legaland illegal drugs, road accidents, murder, and suicide combined.

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