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mitigation strategies based on predictable and long-term financial flows. Transparent and effective information systems in … have been taken, there remains a very long way to go addressing the interlinked development, adaptation, and mitigation …
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Agricultural development is facing great challenges in meeting global food security and is expected to face even greater difficulties under climate change. The overall goal of this paper is to examine how foreign aid in particular can be used to achieve t
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Cities-especially those with substantial poor populations-will face increasingly severe challenges in tackling the impacts of global environmental change (GEC). As economic dynamos and increasingly important population concentrations, cities both contribu
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and disaster risk reduction. This paper seeks to bring greater rigour in their use. In particular, vulnerability must be … of §policy for disaster risk reduction at the scale of community. Here there is often an idealized notion of community as … understood as a set of socioeconomic conditions that are identifiable in relation to particular hazard risks, and therefore …
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two key channels of transmission, namely education and trade. Thirty-six sub-Saharan African countries during the period …
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This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education …
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growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries …
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This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on chil
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Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a .mining take-off.. Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-in
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