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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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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...

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Taxation and inequality in developing countries : lessons from the recent experience of Latin America

Martorano, Bruno - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries, focusing on the recent experience of Latin America. Although the tax system was regressive in the 1990s, tax changes promoted equality in the first decade of the 2000s. In...

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The consequences of the value-added tax on inequality

Alavuotunki, Kaisa; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2015

The adoption of the value-added tax has arguably been one of the most important tax policy measures worldwide, but is also one of the most heatedly debated. While some argue that the VAT has served as a useful tool to boost government revenue, others claim that it is also a regressive tax,...

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Transitional justice and aid

Hellsten, Sirkku - 2012

This paper examines the current security-governance-development nexus, something that is often also discussed under the concept of "transitional justice" (TJ). The paper analyses how the ambiguous, evolving and expanding nature of the concept of TJ affects the planning, coordination, evaluation...

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The state, the market, and development

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2016

to those advances played by changes in economics, changes in the world, and key experiences (in particular the successes …

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Institutional and policy adjustments to implement Free Trade Agreements with the European Union : a developing country perspective

Baltzer, Kenneth - 2015

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) between the European Union (EU) and trade partners go far beyond mere elimination of tariffs to include such diverse issues as non-tariff barriers, competition legislation, investment protection, and more. Implementing such provisions requires deep institutional and...

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Behavioral design : a new approach to development policy

Datta, Saugato; Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2014

Successful development programs rely on people to behave and choose in certain ways, and behavioral economics helps us … understand why people behave and choose as they do. Approaching problems in development using behavioral economics thus leads to … programs. It distills key insights of behavioral economics into a simple framework about the constraints under which people …

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The political economy of the 'resource curse' : a development perspective

Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020

This paper reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less analysis although it is relevant to the Sustainable...

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What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?

Ricciuti, Roberto; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2018

While it is recognized that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, it is not well understood what their origins are and what explains their cross-country differences. We focus on budget institutions in developing economies, as efficient public finance planning in such...

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