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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa

Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014

Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....

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Zambia's mining windfall tax

Lundstøl, Olav; Isaksen, Jan - 2018

In 2008, the Government of Zambia reformed its mining tax regime for large-scale copper mines through a unilateral legislative change. The country went from having one of the lowest average effective tax rates and government take to be above the average. We focus on a particularly controversial...

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The political economy of green growth: Illustrations from Southern Africa

Resnick, Danielle; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - 2012

The concept of green growth implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic prosperity and poverty alleviation, can be easily reconciled with environmental sustainability. This study, however, argues that rather than being win-win, green growth is similar to...

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The challenges of global environmental change for urban Africa

Simon, David - 2010

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 contribute substantially, and often are very...

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Putting Paris into practice: Foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana

Brown, Stephen - 2016

, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana. It argues that Western donors and recipient governments have …, the impact on Mali's and Ghana's relationships with their traditional donors has been minimal and short-lasting. To the … extent that donors and recipients have not significantly changed their practices in either Mali (a poor, fragile, aid …

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Exiting the fragility trap: Rethinking our approach to the world's most fragile states

Carment, David; Samy, Yiagadeesen - 2017

Those fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a 'fragility trap.' Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual political and economic limbo that can last for years and...

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Evidence on aid (in)effectiveness in highly fragile states: A synthesis of three systematic reviews of aid to Afghanistan, Mali, and South Sudan, 2008-21

Zürcher, Christoph - 2022

This working paper provides a summary of three systematic reviews on the effectiveness of aid in Afghanistan, Mali, and …

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Foreign aid in dangerous places: The donors and Mali's democracy

van de Walle, Nicolas - 2012

Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the …

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The effects of armed conflicts on local economic dynamics in the Mopti and Ségou regions of Mali

Tangara, Mahamadou Bassirou - 2024

economies in Ségou and Mopti, Mali, since the conflict outbreak in 2012. Employing a case study method, the research utilizes …

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