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Are biofuels good for African development? An analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …

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Huang, Yongfu; Quibria, M. G. - 2013

What are the major determinants of green growth? What role can the government play to promote green growth? To address these questions, this paper develops a simple Green Solow model that sheds light on the role of finance and technology in the process of green growth. The empirical section of...

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Governing clean energy transitions in China and India: A comparative political economy analysis

Isoaho, Karoliina; Goritz, Alexandra; Schulz, Nicolai - 2016

China and India will have to radically transform their electric power systems in order to decouple economic growth from unsustainable resource consumption. While the majority of transition literature has focused on the diverse socio-technical factors that could enable such a transformation, more...

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Public disclosure for pollution abatement: African decision-makers in a PROPER public good experiment

Akpalu, Wisdom; Abidoye, Babatunde; Muchapondwa, Edwin; … - 2015

A linear public good experiment has been employed to investigate strategic behaviour in pollution abatement among … the two treated groups, while there was no statistically significant difference between the pollution abatement of the two … treated groups. The results suggest that public disclosure potentially drives pollution abatement and that its eventual …

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Is the clean development mechanism effective for emission reductions?

Huang, Yongfu; He, Jingjing; Tarp, Finn - 2012

This research studies whether the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol achieves its objective of emission reductions in the host countries. It empirically investigates the impacts of CDM projects on CO2 emission reductions for 60 CDM host countries over 2005-10. This research...

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Understanding Chinese and Western development finance in Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Muchapondwa, Edwin; Mukanjari, Samson - 2014

also going into Uganda and South Africa while South Africa is the darling of Western donors. Chinese funded projects are …

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Foreign aid, green cities and buildings

Kablan, Sandrine - 2013

This paper attempts, first, to assess foreign aid effectiveness in fostering green city procedures in developing countries. For this purpose, we rely on the following aid effectiveness criteria: national ownership; harmonization; alignment and mutual accountability; and results management. Our...

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Cost and impact analysis of sea level rise on coastal Vietnam

Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L. - 2014

The Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in Vietnam. The study utilizes a quantitative approach for...

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The main obstacles to firms' growth in Senegal: Implications for the long run

Maurel, Mathilde; Seghir, Majda - 2014

Productivity gains are the prime engine of economic growth. This paper uses a rich amount of firms' accounting information from the Single Information Collecting Centre in Senegal over the period 1998-2011. To investigate the two main obstacles to growth, poor education and poor access to...

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Infrastructure and climate change: Impacts and adaptations for South Africa

Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L.; … - 2012

infrastructure within South Africa. The approach builds upon previous work associated with the UNU-WIDER Development under Climate … support system. The results of the study indicate that the national level climate change cost impact in South Africa will vary …

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