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A hundred key questions for the post-2015 development agenda
2015
into nine macro-thematic sections: governance, participation and rights; environmental sustainability; food security, land … and agriculture; energy and natural resources; conflict, population dynamics and urbanization; economic growth, employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485119
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Financing growth : foreign aid vs. foreign loans
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193408
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Relative product diversification in the course of economic development : import-export analysis
Parteka, Aleksandra; Tamberi, Massimo - 2012 - This version: 28.11.2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011765128
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From institutions to financial development and growth : what are the links?
Fernández, Andrés; Tamayo, César E. - 2015
This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic growth. From the large body of research on institutional development, the paper first selects those contributions that make it possible to study the role of institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290078
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Resource curse or blessing? : sovereign risk in resource-rich emerging economies
Hamann S., Franz A.; Mendoza, Enrique G.; … - 2018
In this paper we document the stylized facts about the relationship between international oil price swings, sovereign risk and macroeconomic performance of oil-exporting economies. We show that even though being a bigger oil producer decreases sovereign risk–because it increases a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950480
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On the water-energy-food nexus: is there multivariate convergence?
Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021
This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for 108 countries from 1971 to 2018, using a common data set, with VAR and panel data approach. We establish a new notion of multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487810
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Foreign direct investment, aid, and terrorism : an analysis of developing countries
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd; Younas, Javed - 2011
Using a dynamic panel data framework, we investigate the relationship between the two major forms of terrorism and foreign direct investment (FDI). We then analyze how these relationships are affected by foreign aid flows. The analysis focuses on 78 developing countries for 1984- 2008. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008840976
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Trading favors? : UN Security Council membership and subnational favoritism in aid recipients
Perrotta Berlin, Maria; Desai, Raj M.; Olofsgård, Anders - 2022
We test the hypothesis that aid recipient governments are better able to utilize aid flows for political favoritism during periods in which they are of geo-strategic value to major donors. We examine the effect of a country's (non-permanent) membership on the United Nations Security Council...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167732
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Contestation and resource bargaining in Zimbabwe : the minerals sector : prepared for the UNRISD project on Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development
Saunders, Richard - 2017
This paper explores the emergence and evolution of social contestation over mineral resources in Zimbabwe through three decades and successive models of state engagement around extractives, revenue mobilization and development planning. It investigates patterns of contestation and outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793579
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High-value minerals and resource bargaining in a time of crisis : a case study on the diamond fields of Marange, Zimbabwe : prepared for the UNRISD project on Politics of Domestic...
Saunders, Richard - 2018
underscore the limits of civil society and donor influence with government in strengthening resource governance through … contestation over the management of high-value minerals. In a period of heightened political conflict, economic crisis and elite … time, various international legal and regulatory mechanisms established to strengthen resource governance proved to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793581