Tag: R50

EVALUATION OF ECONOMIC STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF KUPANG CITY, NTT PROVINCE, INDONESIA TO MEET NATIONAL GHG EMISSION TARGET

Adrianus AMHEKA

Associate Professor, State Polytechnic of Kupang, Indonesia, Correspondence details: Dr. Adrianus Amheka, State Polytechnic of Kupang, Jl. Adisucipto PO.BOX 139 Penfui Kupang, NTT, Indonesia

adrianus.amheka@gmail.com

Abstract

Indonesian government through RAN/RAD-GRK program set target to reduce GHG emission between 26%~41% by 2020 based on 2005 emissions under BAU. Study begins by simple identify and evaluate current socio-economic structure condition to achieve Indonesia’s GHG emission reduction target. We assume optimal GHG reduction rate (n) between 0%~20% then investigate its impacts to related sectors. As result, found 0.015Gt is estimated amount of GHG emission in Kupang before optimized (or about 0. 47% of total GHG emission in Indonesia) and 0.012Gt after optimized. The optimal n is around 15%~17% with Kupang GRP (1,656.86~1,371.51) Trillion IDR. The result indicated that Kupang economic cannot attain n more than 17%~20% without any conflict among stakeholders and current gross regional product (GRP) is not optimal to control GHG emission but has a space for making a higher GRP by keeping the same amount of GRP as before optimized. Relation between n and GRP called the trade-off and it is allowed can be raised up by introducing renewable energy technology for future research. In Indonesia, this study becomes the first study dealt with GHG emission reduction in the city level focused on economic activities.

Keywords: Kupang economic, GHG emission, reduction rate

JEL classification: O21, O25, O44, R50, R58

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MOVING REGIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY MODERNIZATION AHEAD: SYSTEMS BASIS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL AND DEBLOCKING MECHANISMS IN PRESENT-DAY UKRAINE

Igor DUNAYEV

PhD in PA, associate professor, post-doctoral fellow, Kharkiv regional institute of public administration of the National academy of public administration by the President of Ukraine

Igor.dunayev@gmail.com

Abstract

The paper objective is to provide rationale for the systems basis for organizational and deblocking mechanisms of a discrete regional modernization process. Basing on methodology of systems analysis, the paper offers an author’s conceptualization of a systemic regional economic policy modernization in the present-day Ukraine. The author’s original contribution is his profound idea of the modernization process being discrete, non-linear, and following a changeable trajectory. These properties of the system have influenced considerably the interpretation and revaluation of the current state of the modernization process and its “tension lines”. Starting out from the properties of “system material” and the author’s general concept of the regional economic policy modernization in Ukraine, the paper identifies two actual mechanisms for ensuring stability of a desired modernization trajectory – a mechanism of modernization process organization, and a mechanism deblocking the process of modernization. For each of them, the reasons for existence and “tension lines” are determined and rationalized. Finally, an important conclusion is drawn that the proposed logic of analyzing the mechanisms to support regional modernization can be applied both in Ukraine and in other counties, providing a way to purposefully affect the procedure and structure of governance mechanisms in accordance with the set priorities.

Keywords: regional economic policy, systems approach, mechanisms, Ukrainian modernization

JEL classification: O38, R58, R50

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