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Foreign aid and climate change policy : what can('t) the data tell us?
Kono, Daniel Y.; Montinola, Gabriella R. - 2019
Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging US$100 billion annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have little evidence that climate aid actually encourages...
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Extractive dependency in lower-income countries : evolving trends during the transition to a low-carbon future
Ericsson, Magnus; Löf, Olof - 2020
to analyse the opportunities for developing countries of the present global transition to a world less dependent on …
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From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy : explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2018
Success in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of global employment in manufacturing will decline, manufacturing won't play the same role in the coming decades. An increase in manufacturing employment won't suffice to meet the...
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
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Is there a fiscal resource curse? : resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies
Masi, Tania; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020
States' fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in...
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Environmental and climate finance in a new world : how past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid
Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley; Peratsakis, … - 2013
In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015
We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
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Extractive industries and development : lessons from international experience for Mozambique
Roe, Alan - 2018
In common with several other low-income African economies, in recent years Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its long-established extractives industries. Huge new gas finds in particular have led to expectations that these industries will contribute very...
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Data, global development, and COVID-19 : lessons and consequences
Naudé, Wim; Vinuesa, Ricardo - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development. These are that (1) in a global crisis, the shifting value of data creates policy pitfalls; (2) predictions of crises and how they play...
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The curse of the one-size-fits-all fix : re-evaluating what we know about extractives and economic development
Lahn, Glada; Stevens, Paul - 2017
In the context of falls in extractive commodities prices since 2011, this paper examines the history of thinking about the interplay between extractives and economic development. Just as 'the resource curse' fails as a generic explanation on account of the huge diversity in country contexts, so...
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