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Aid and the environment in Africa : a synthesis of eight case studies
Muchapondwa, Edwin - 2014
environmental conditions as long as mainstreaming of either biodiversity or climate change or desertification or the environment …This study seeks to understand what aid flows have been doing to the environment in eight countries in Eastern, Western …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259997
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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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Aid, environment, and climate change in Africa : the case of Senegal
Ngaido, Tidiane - 2014
started in the same year as the establishment of the environment ministry, 1993, to assess the perspectives as well as the … evolution of the financing of the environment. Such an approach has large benefits as it helps to (1) capture changes in … donors and levels of funding in the sector; (3) document which subsectors of the environment are receiving more resources …
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Towards contribution analysis
Hodge, R. Anthony - 2017
Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592933
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Are we measuring natural resource wealth correctly? : a reconceptualization of natural resource value in the era of climate change
Lebdioui, Amir - 2021
Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously flawed. This paper proposes two avenues for...
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Good institutions and tax revenue outcomes in resource-rich countries : when "good" is not enough
Chachu, Daniel Ofoe - 2021
Developing countries that experience commodity booms struggle to mobilize sustainable tax revenues. Emerging literature on the subject notwithstanding, there is limited exploration of the specific types of institutions critical for improving fiscal capacity in resourcerich contexts. This paper...
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Construction and public procurement in Uganda
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Ntungire, Nicole - 2018
As it transitions to an oil-producing country, Uganda's investments in infrastructure and physical capital will increasingly depend on the ability of the construction sector to respond to surges in demand and transform investment effort into outcomes. Using administrative and survey data, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962517
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Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance : lessons from Nigeria and Ghana
Buckley, Joanna; McCulloch, Neil; Travis, Nick - 2017
Donor interest in the extractives sector is based upon the premise that it represents an opportunity to improve a country’s development prospects. However, in many cases the presence of extractive resources is associated with poor economic performance. As a result, some donors are trying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597007
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The challenges of global environmental change for urban Africa
Simon, David - 2010
Cities - especially those with substantial poor populations - will face increasingly severe challenges in tackling the impacts of global environmental change (GEC). As economic dynamos and increasingly important population concentrations, cities both contribute substantially, and often are very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661892
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The relative neglect of agriculture in Mozambique
Carrilho, João Z.; Ferreira, Ines A.; Ribeiro, Rui N.; … - 2021
institutional framework aimed at increasing agricultural productivity and preserving the environment. …
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