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Characterizing wind power resource reliability in southern Africa

Fant, Charles; Gunturu, Udaya Bhaskar - 2013

Producing electricity from wind is attractive because it provides a clean, low-maintenance power supply. However, wind resource is intermittent on various time scales, thus introducing variability in power output that is difficult for electric grid planning. In the following study, wind resource...

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

Muchapondwa, Edwin; Mukanjari, Samson - 2014

China's importance as a major donor outside the traditional Western donors has been increasing and this has helped to bridge the funding gaps in developing countries. At the same time, South-South financial assistance still comes with less conditionality making China's aid model different to...

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Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements : prospecting a mineralized future

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2014

Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a "mining take-off". Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-intensive artisanal mining, which, at...

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Ethnicity is not public service destiny : the political logic of service distribution in South Africa

Porten, John; Rhee, Inbok; Gibson, Clark C. - 2021

Millions of South Africans in thousands of demonstrations have protested the unequal allocation of public services. Despite the African National Congress's promise to reduce the disparities generated by apartheid, the level of public services remains highly uneven across the country. Most...

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Building malls or metros? : South Africa's exports of tradable urban services to the rest of Africa

Turok, Ivan; Visagie, Justin - 2020

Service industries are increasingly important in international trade and offer additional paths to economic development. There are many opportunities to expand trade in services between South Africa and other African countries. Improvements in urban planning, design, and governance are vital to...

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Investigating inequality trends in Africa : ACEIR research and the WIID

Wittenberg, Martin; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2023

Work done by the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) has documented the many-faceted nature of inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one...

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European energy security : challenges and green opportunities

Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016

This research reviews relevant literature on the current state and effectiveness of developing renewable energy on energy security in general, and on energy security in the European Union in particular. The paper elaborates on primary energy import sources, possible alternatives, and how energy...

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Unintended consequences of economic sanctions for human rights : conflict minerals and infant mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Parker, Dominic P.; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Elsea, David - 2016

Are victims of human rights abuses better off with or without economic sanctions targeted at their perpetrators? We study this question in the context of a US human rights policy, Section 1502 of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. By discouraging companies from sourcing 'conflict minerals' from the...

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Sanction-busting through tax havens

Kavaklı, Kerim Can; Marcolongo, Giovanna; Zambiasi, Diego - 2023

Leaks Database and conduct the first systematic analysis of the role that tax havens play in financial sanction evasion. Our … main finding is that sanction targets reduce their funds in sanctioning countries while increasing their funds in tax … havens. This displacement effect is stronger when the sanction coalition includes the United States or comprises more FATF or …

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Trade sanctions and informal employment

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023

This paper examines how trade sanctions affect the allocation of workers across formal and informal employment. We analyse the case of the unexpected and unprecedented trade sanctions imposed on Iran in 2012. We use a difference-in-differences approach and compare the probability of working in...

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