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Building resilience knowledge for sustainable development: Insights from development studies
Park, Albert Sanghoon - 2023
This paper explores how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set amidst the rise of resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policy-makers, alike. Sampling 419 resilience-oriented journal articles from 2017-22, it uses Kuhnian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477585
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Aid and the environment in Africa: A synthesis of eight case studies
Muchapondwa, Edwin - 2014
environmental conditions as long as mainstreaming of either biodiversity or climate change or desertification or the environment …This study seeks to understand what aid flows have been doing to the environment in eight countries in Eastern, Western …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343257
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Aid, environment, and climate change in Africa: The case of Senegal
Ngaido, Tidiane - 2014
started in the same year as the establishment of the environment ministry, 1993, to assess the perspectives as well as the … evolution of the financing of the environment. Such an approach has large benefits as it helps to (1) capture changes in … donors and levels of funding in the sector; (3) document which subsectors of the environment are receiving more resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343232
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Influence of institutional factors on the performance of the agricultural sector in Mozambique
Carrilho, João Z.; Ribeiro, Rui N. - 2020
productivity, which could reflect a wider socioeconomic and institutional environment, i.e. beyond the agricultural sector. The … productivity and preserving the environment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424115
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The relative neglect of agriculture in Mozambique
Carrilho, João Z.; Ferreira, Ines A.; Ribeiro, Rui N.; … - 2021
institutional framework aimed at increasing agricultural productivity and preserving the environment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705333
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Aid and the environment: The case of Botswana
Juana, James S. - 2014
economic development. This study attempts to determine what aid flows have actually been doing with regard to the environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343207
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Towards contribution analysis
Hodge, R. Anthony - 2017
Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654012
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A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals: The cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe
Adu-Gyamfi, Richard; Asongu, Simplice; Mmusi, Tinaye Sonto - 2020
The objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe integrate the Sustainable Development Goals in their implementation and operations. We focused on four Sustainable Development Goals- gender equality, decent work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424051
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Effectiveness of strategic environmental assessment in promoting sustainable development in Tanzania
Alfred, Emanoel; Qamara, Joseph - 2021
This paper examines the extent to which strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is implemented in Tanzania and whether its implementation is in line with generally practised procedures/criteria. Out of 17 completed SEA, eight cases were purposively selected and assessed by applying an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705309
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Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance: Lessons from Nigeria and Ghana
Buckley, Joanna; McCulloch, Neil; Travis, Nick - 2017
Donor interest in the extractives sector is based upon the premise that it represents an opportunity to improve a country's development prospects. However, in many cases the presence of extractive resources is associated with poor economic performance. As a result, some donors are trying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654024