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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549765
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165580
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955468
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390407
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268212
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Structural transformation in the world economy : on the significance of developing countries
Nayyar, Deepak - 2016
future implications. The increased economic significance of developing countries, reflected in their share of world output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574134
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592940
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873860
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Foreign aid and sustainable energy
Gómez Echeverri, Luis Fernando - 2013
change, ecosystem management, world health and security are all influenced by energy, its availability, cost, emissions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187193