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The paper considers the process of discovery for subsoil resources, including both hard minerals and hydrocarbons and estimates its magnitude in recent years, as derived from the sum of extraction and changes in proven reserves. Spurred on by technology change and strong market conditions,...
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the world. We fail to fully explain this phenomenon but offer a number of explanations that together could account for it …
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This paper uses contract theory to suggest simple contract designs that could be used by the Global Fund. Using a basic … of the paper then discusses how one can build a real world contract from these theoretical foundations, and how these …
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This paper attempts a first-cut listing of global public goods and international spillover activities, as well as providing some data on their global distribution alongside basic correlational analysis. Few if any goods are “pure” global public goods and there is a spectrum of the extent of...
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developing world and to the livelihoods and welfare of their people. Climate change is the classic example. Despite the risks …
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Many of the world's poorest and most fragile states are joining the ranks of oil and gas producers. These countries …
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, however, poverty has not fallen so dramatically; as a result, most of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries … (MICs). In fact, up to a billion poor people — or a new bottom billion — live not in the world's poorest countries but in …
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A common objection to results-based programs is that they are somehow more vulnerable to corruption. This paper explains why results-based approaches to foreign aid may be less vulnerable to corruption than the traditional approaches which monitor and track the purchase and delivery of inputs...
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The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. However, drawing conclusions...
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global economy more effective, more legitimate, and more responsive to the needs of the bottom half of the world's population …
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