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Aid, environment, and climate change in Africa : the case of Senegal
Ngaido, Tidiane - 2014
The paper reviews the dynamics of the financing baseed its analysis on the rich dataset of AidData ranging over 1993-2010, with around 9,077 observations on projects funded in Senegal by various multilateral as well as bilateral donors. The study started in the same year as the establishment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228736
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The theory and practice of agriculture, growth, and development in Africa
Badiane, Ousmane; Makombe, Tsitsi - 2014
Africa's improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from … agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260001
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Mining and economic development : did China's WTO accession affect African local economic development?
Addison, Tony; Boly, Amadou; Mveyange, Anthony - 2016
China's WTO Accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571830
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The legacy of coercive cotton cultivation in colonial Mozambique
Barros, Henrique; Caeiro, Rute Martins; Jones, Sam; … - 2024
We examine the long-term impact of forced labour on individual risk behaviour and economic decisions. For that, we focus on a policy of coercive cotton cultivation enforced in colonial Mozambique between 1926 and 1961. We combine archival sources about the boundaries of historical cotton...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496437
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Biofuels technology : a look forward
Stafford, William; Lotter, Adrian; Brent, Alan; Von … - 2017
This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634476
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422665
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Approaches to supporting local and community development : the view from Zambia
Mondoloka, Angel - 2017
Mining is the largest sector of the Zambian economy but, as has been the case elsewhere, the relationship between mining companies and their host communities has been fractious, without a clear path towards sustainability. The severe social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607491
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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa
Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz - 2014
This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital to boosting the demand for labour in Africa. Africa has some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230912
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How do we increase the share of aid to agriculture in Africa?
Quartey, Peter - 2014
African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233568
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Foreign aid and sustainable agriculture in Africa
Umbadda, Siddig; Elgizouli, Ismail - 2013
high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009789056