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-depth research on Afghanistan as an overlooked area of study by the academic and development research community despite representing …
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This study represents the first attempt at an integrated approach to assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the national economy of South Africa via a number of (but not necessarily all) impact channels. The study focuses on outcomes by about 2050. The results show the multiple...
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Recent years have seen a proliferation of ‘composite indicators’ or ‘indexes’ of governance. Such measures can be useful tools for analysing governance, making public policy, building scientific knowledge, and even influencing ruling elites, but some are better tools than others and some...
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Malawi confronts a development imperative in a context of rising temperatures and deep uncertainty about precipitation … trends. We evaluate the implications of climate change for overall growth and development prospects to 2050. We focus on …
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recently been called the 'capability trap' in development - which results in many interventions producing new forms that are …
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The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty … Bank focusing on dominant development paradigms, client and stakeholder relationships and the organization's operational …
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. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan …
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recovery to structural transformation. This paper reviews the evolution of development theory and practice, the role of …-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). …
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development partners, introduced the Tanzania Joint Assistance Strategy. This resulted in an improvement in the country …'s operational development strategies and by 2010 out of 13 indicators with applicable targets, six were met. The paper concludes …
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This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic...
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