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Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Hanna, Rema; Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
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Report on National Mineral Policy
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2007
Even after five years of after the liberalisation of the investment regime India has failed to attract FDI to come to the mining sector. In the last decade, many developing countries have significantly reoriented their mining laws and policies to attract global investment. In a study conducted...
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Fasten Your Seatbelts! Monetary Policy Challenges in Turbulent Times
Mboweni T.T. - eSocialSciences - 2007
One of the burning issues at the moment relates to increasing the “voice†or representation of emerging-market economies in international financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank. There are many issues and challenges facing the monetary policy in emerging markets. In the...
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Findings oF the Jury Independent People's Tribunal on the World Bank in India
Independent People's Tribunal - eSocialSciences - 2008
It was considered important to undertake a broad-spectrum enquiry into the World Bank and the functioning of its allies and to review their impacts nationally. This is the origin of the Independent People’s Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India. The purpose behind the Tribunal was to...
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Punishing the Poor? A Look at Evidence and Action Regarding User Fees in Health Care
CEHAT, ... - eSocialSciences - 2011
This policy brief aims to summarise evidence and discuss various concerns about charging user fees from a low-income perspective.
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Income diversification in Zimbabwe : welfare implications from urban and rural areas
Ersado, Lire - 2006
diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national …
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Why has poverty increased in Zimbabwe?
Alwang, Jeffrey R. - 2002
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Zimbabwe Infrastructure Dialogue in Roads, Railways, Water, Energy, and Telecommunication Sub-Sectors
World Bank - 2012
In the 1990s, Zimbabwe's economic growth began to slow following a balance of payments crisis and repeated droughts. By … the late 1990s Zimbabwe's economy was in serious trouble driven by economic mismanagement, political violence, and the …
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Zimbabwe Public Expenditure Review 2017 : Volume 4. Primary and Secondary Education
Government of Zimbabwe - 2017
Zimbabwe is at a critical juncture. After dollarization and favorable economic factors fueled arecovery during 2009 …-12, Zimbabwe today faces slowing growth, a financial crisis, increasingly erratic weather patterns and rising poverty and … inequality. To help respond to these issues, the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) has sought to examine and ultimately better manage …
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Zimbabwe Public Expenditure Review 2017 : Volume 3. State Enterprises and Parastatals
Government of Zimbabwe - 2017
Zimbabwe is at a critical juncture. After dollarization and favorable economic factors fueled arecovery during 2009 …-12, Zimbabwe today faces slowing growth, a financial crisis, increasingly erratic weather patterns and rising poverty and … inequality. To help respond to these issues, the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) has sought to examine and ultimately better manage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247489