Richard Damania
Biographic Data
| ID | 1577917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Damania |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Damania |
| SIGNATURE | DAMANIA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8710-320X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Environmental foundations of human capital
Food security in a time of climate–food–water–energy convergence
Getting ready for the Anthropocene
This paper describes three phases that cities go through for the delivery of municipal water and sanitation services, identifying the main political, technological, socio-institutional, financial, public health forces of disequilibria that push cities along this development path. Data from the Global Water Intelligence and the World Bank’s International Benchmarking Network show that most of the countries with utilities with limited piped water c…
Emerging threats from climate change on our oceans demand proactive action
Mapping global hotspots and trends of water quality (1992–2010)
Clean water is key for sustainable development. However, large gaps in monitoring data limit our understanding of global hotspots of poor water quality and their evolution over time. We demonstrate the value added of a data-driven approach (here, random forest) to provide accurate high-frequency estimates of surface water quality worldwide over the period 1992–2010. We assess water quality for six indicators (temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, sa…
Putting the green back in greenbacks
Can countries reorient their productive capacity to become more environmentally friendly and inclusive? To investigate this question this paper uses a standard Input-Output modeling framework and data from 141 countries and regions to construct a new global dataset of employment, value-added, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (disaggregated into CO 2 and Non-CO 2 elements), and air pollution (including nine categories of air pollutants such as PM 2.…
Ebb and Flow, Volume 1
Migration shapes the lives of those who move and transforms the geographies and economies of their points of departure and destinations alike. The water sector, and the availability of water itself, implicitly and explicitly shape migration flows. Ebb and Flow, Volume 1. Water, Migration, and Development presents new global evidence to advance our understanding of how fluctuations in water availability, as induced by rainfall shocks, influence in…
Environmental policy instruments and corruption
In this paper we discuss the choice of taxation or regulation of environmental externalities. The subject might appear to be a well-trodden path, but we believe we have a new angle on this well-established question. We think we are being quite realistic when we assume that corrupt practices lurk behind every corner, threatening to derail the good intents of any regulator. With this starting point we compare the result of trying to impose taxation…
Evaluating Transport Infrastructure Projects in Low Data Environments
Transport infrastructure consumes a large fraction of the development assistance envelope. Yet procedures for evaluating transport infrastructure projects are typically ad-hoc. This paper proposes an approach to assess the differential impacts of alternative investment proposals in data constrained environments where conducting reliable impact analyses is difficult. We first demonstrate a technique for estimating the cost of transporting products…
India’s forests – Stepping stone or millstone for the poor
The Road to Growth
The economics of wildlife farming and endangered species conservation
Environmentalism, democracy, and pollution control
This paper makes two empirical contributions to the literature, based on predictions generated by a lobby group model. First, we investigate how environmental lobby groups affect the determination of environmental policy in rich and developing countries. Second, we explore the interaction between democratic participation and political (electoral) competition. The empirical findings suggest that environmental lobby groups tend to positively affect…
Protecting Eden
Resource intensity, institutions, and development
The Persistence of Corruption and Regulatory Compliance Failures
Collusion, Collective Action and Protection
Fiscal crisis and UK local tax reform
1992). Fiscal crisis and UK local tax reform. Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 179-190
Resource intensity, institutions, and development
The Persistence of Corruption and Regulatory Compliance Failures
India’s forests – Stepping stone or millstone for the poor
The Road to Growth
Collusion, Collective Action and Protection
Environmental policy instruments and corruption
In this paper we discuss the choice of taxation or regulation of environmental externalities. The subject might appear to be a well-trodden path, but we believe we have a new angle on this well-established question. We think we are being quite realistic when we assume that corrupt practices lurk behind every corner, threatening to derail the good intents of any regulator. With this starting point we compare the result of trying to impose taxation…
Fiscal crisis and UK local tax reform
1992). Fiscal crisis and UK local tax reform. Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 179-190
Fiscal crisis and UK local tax reform
1992). Fiscal crisis and UK local tax reform. Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 179-190
The Persistence of Corruption and Regulatory Compliance Failures
Collusion, Collective Action and Protection
Environmentalism, democracy, and pollution control
This paper makes two empirical contributions to the literature, based on predictions generated by a lobby group model. First, we investigate how environmental lobby groups affect the determination of environmental policy in rich and developing countries. Second, we explore the interaction between democratic participation and political (electoral) competition. The empirical findings suggest that environmental lobby groups tend to positively affect…
Protecting Eden
Resource intensity, institutions, and development
The economics of wildlife farming and endangered species conservation
The Road to Growth
Evaluating Transport Infrastructure Projects in Low Data Environments
Transport infrastructure consumes a large fraction of the development assistance envelope. Yet procedures for evaluating transport infrastructure projects are typically ad-hoc. This paper proposes an approach to assess the differential impacts of alternative investment proposals in data constrained environments where conducting reliable impact analyses is difficult. We first demonstrate a technique for estimating the cost of transporting products…
India’s forests – Stepping stone or millstone for the poor
Environmental policy instruments and corruption
In this paper we discuss the choice of taxation or regulation of environmental externalities. The subject might appear to be a well-trodden path, but we believe we have a new angle on this well-established question. We think we are being quite realistic when we assume that corrupt practices lurk behind every corner, threatening to derail the good intents of any regulator. With this starting point we compare the result of trying to impose taxation…
Ebb and Flow, Volume 1
Migration shapes the lives of those who move and transforms the geographies and economies of their points of departure and destinations alike. The water sector, and the availability of water itself, implicitly and explicitly shape migration flows. Ebb and Flow, Volume 1. Water, Migration, and Development presents new global evidence to advance our understanding of how fluctuations in water availability, as induced by rainfall shocks, influence in…
Mapping global hotspots and trends of water quality (1992–2010)
Clean water is key for sustainable development. However, large gaps in monitoring data limit our understanding of global hotspots of poor water quality and their evolution over time. We demonstrate the value added of a data-driven approach (here, random forest) to provide accurate high-frequency estimates of surface water quality worldwide over the period 1992–2010. We assess water quality for six indicators (temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, sa…
Putting the green back in greenbacks
Can countries reorient their productive capacity to become more environmentally friendly and inclusive? To investigate this question this paper uses a standard Input-Output modeling framework and data from 141 countries and regions to construct a new global dataset of employment, value-added, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (disaggregated into CO 2 and Non-CO 2 elements), and air pollution (including nine categories of air pollutants such as PM 2.…
Emerging threats from climate change on our oceans demand proactive action
Getting ready for the Anthropocene
This paper describes three phases that cities go through for the delivery of municipal water and sanitation services, identifying the main political, technological, socio-institutional, financial, public health forces of disequilibria that push cities along this development path. Data from the Global Water Intelligence and the World Bank’s International Benchmarking Network show that most of the countries with utilities with limited piped water c…
Environmental foundations of human capital
Food security in a time of climate–food–water–energy convergence
Economics (13 works) · Natural resource economics (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Public economics (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Environmental Science (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works)