HKS Affiliated Authors
Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy
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Certification Strategies, Industrial Development and a Global Market for Biofuels. Ricardo Hausmann, October 2009, Paper. "A disproportionately large amount of the world's agronomic potential for the production of bio-ethanol is concentrated in a subset of developing countries. To develop that potential, countries need both the existence of an appropriate local business ecosystem and reliable global demand. The creation of a global market for green biofuels, however, is affected by a constellation of diverse and sometimes conflicting policy goals, which tend to complicate policy discussion..." Link