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Capacity Development for Environmental Management and Governance in the Energy Sector in Developing Countries
Matheson, George - 2011
The relationships between energy, the environment, and development are deep and complex. The International Energy Agency has noted that energy is deeply implicated in each of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of human development. Energy services provide an essential input to...
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Harmonising Climate Risk Management : Adaptation Screening and Assessment Tools for Development Co-operation
Hammill, Anne - 2011
Development planners and project managers have used a wide variety of tools to manage a broad range of environmental risks, including those posed by climate variability, for a long time. Some of these tools have also now been modified to take into account the risks posed by climate change. At...
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Scaling Up Aid Or Scaling Down : the Global Economic Crisis and Rwanda's Mdgs
Lofgren, Hans - 2009
Rwanda is not on track to achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals at a time when hopes for scaled-up aid are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394252
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The Fiscal Impact of Foreign Aid In Rwanda : A Theoretical And Empirical Analysis
Ezemenari, Kene - 2008
The inflow of large quantities of foreign aid into Rwanda since 1994 can have potential adverse effects such as aid … Rwanda to show, in line with other studies in the literature, a negative relationship between increased aid and the tax rate …; but the magnitude of the effects are extremely small. In the case of Rwanda, reforms to the tax administration and …
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Learning from success : how Rwanda achieved the millennium development goals for health
Abbott, Pamela; Sapsford, Roger; Binagwaho, Agnes - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 92 (2017), pp. 103-116
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Public sector performance and development cooperation in Rwanda : results-based approaches
Klingebiel, Stephan; Gonsior, Victoria; Jakobs, Franziska; … - 2016
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Transition finance : introducing a new concept
Piemonte, Cécilia; Cattaneo, Olivier; Morris, Rachel; … - 2019
In answer to the call expressed within the Addis Ababa Action Agenda to mobilise all available resources – domestic and foreign, public and private – in support of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Development Co-operation Directorate develops a new work stream on transition finance to...
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Chapter 26 The economics of international aid
Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1559-1588). 2006
This paper presents an overview of the economics of international aid, highlighting the historical literature and the contemporary debates. It reviews the “trade-theoretic” and the “contract-theoretic” analytical literature, and the empirical and institutional literature. It demonstrates...
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Engaging the diaspora in an era of transnationalism : South Korea's engagement with its diaspora can support the country's development
Song, Changzoo - 2014
Since the 1990s, South Korea's population has been aging and its fertility rate has fallen. At the same time, the number of Koreans living abroad has risen considerably. These trends threaten to diminish South Korea's international and economic stature. To mitigate the negative effects of these...
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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries
Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
Of the world’s 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...
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