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The impact of climate change on agriculture and poor groups’ livelihoods are one of the greatest potential threats to … development and a key challenge in climate change agenda. The North Africa region is particularly vulnerable to climate change due … sources of stress and further compounded by low adaptive capacity. This paper describes the interaction between climate change …
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To continue its economic growth and create new and better livelihoods, Africa must transform the productive side of its economy. Ongoing globalization.in trade, finance, and technology.opens up new possibilities for structural transformation, but also new
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Economy-wide and hydrological-crop models are combined to estimate and compare the economic impacts of current climate … variability and future anthropogenic climate change in Zambia. Accounting for uncertainty, simulation results indicate that, on … underscoring the importance of extreme weather events in determining climate damages. Three climate change scenarios are simulated …
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Climate change may damage road infrastructure to the potential detriment of economic growth, particularly in developing … countries. To quantitatively assess climate changeâ..s consequences, we construct a climate-infrastructure model based on … other climate change impact channels. We apply this framework to Mozambiqueand simulate four future climate scenarios. Our …
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Oman and Bahrain are Middle Eastern success stories. There are some key similarities. Both have followed pragmatic development strategies built on a stable foundation of strengthened governance structures and enhanced economic liberalization. These improvements occurred in somewhat different...
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Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur simultaneously in all developed countries. Differences in growth rates are often attributed to differences in the speed with which countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This...
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This paper provides a synthesis of the three papers on the non-Nordic developed economies, Ireland, Japan and Switzerland along the following themes: role of the state, openness, education and human capital, and macroeconomic stability. It then draws lessons for developing countries of today.
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A good deal is known about what makes for successful economic development, but very little is known about how to get there - that entails an understanding of the process of economic change. The paper fist examines the sources of successful growth and then explores the process of dynamic change...
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