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Aid and the environment in Africa : a synthesis of eight case studies
Muchapondwa, Edwin - 2014
This study seeks to understand what aid flows have been doing to the environment in eight countries in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. Total aid to these countries' environmental sectors for the 2000s decade is about US$10.17 billion and bilateral aid has been on the rise. There seems to...
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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 … findings. First is the absence of a coherent resilience paradigm (with shared definitions, problems, and methods) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549765
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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...
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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509295
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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...
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Incorporation of offshore shell companies as an indicator of corruption risk in the extractive industries
Marcolongo, Giovanna; Zambiasi, Diego - 2022
We show that the incorporation of offshore entities increases when oil and gas exploration licences are awarded. We exploit leaked data on the incorporation of shell companies and detailed information on tax havens and the awarding rounds of oil licences to construct a new data set covering 119...
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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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Natural resources, institutions, and economic transformation in Mozambique
Macuane, José Jaime; Muianga, Carlos - 2020
In the light of Mozambique's natural resources boom-especially its large-scale investments in mining, oil, and gas-this paper analyses the prospects for the extractive industries to contribute to economic transformation from an institutional perspective. To this purpose, we address the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301838
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Optimal local content for extractive industries : how can policies best create benefits for Tanzania?
Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes - 2018
Tanzania is rich with natural resources, which have significant potential to contribute to the country's economic development. Several laws recently passed in Tanzania are dedicated to establishing linkages between foreign firms in natural resource extraction and the local economy. This paper...
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