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The political economy of green growth : illustrations from Southern Africa

Resnick, Danielle; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - 2012

The concept of "green growth" implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic prosperity and poverty alleviation, can be easily reconciled with environmental sustainability. This study, however, argues that rather than being win-win, green growth is similar...

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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa

Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014

Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....

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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...

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Zambia's mining windfall tax

Lundstøl, Olav; Isaksen, Jan - 2018

In 2008, the Government of Zambia reformed its mining tax regime for large-scale copper mines through a unilateral legislative change. The country went from having one of the lowest average effective tax rates and government take to be above the average. We focus on a particularly controversial...

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Understanding indicator choice for the assessment of research, development, and demonstration financing of low-carbon energy technologies : lessons from the Nordic countries

Sonnenschein, Jonas - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016

set of indicators for this purpose. This study looks at research, development, and demonstration financing in the Nordic … countries, which are frequently mentioned as leading countries with respect to eco-innovation. Different indicators are …, its ease of monitoring, and its robustness as assessment criteria. No indicator or set of indicators emerges as clearly …

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Indices of social development and their application to Africa

Haan, Arjan de; Foa, Roberto - 2014

Studies is a large and innovative database of social development indicators to overcome such data constraints. They are based …

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Ethnic dominance and exclusion : unpacking cross-national data

Vaccaro, Andrea - 2022

It is widely accepted that the distribution of power between ethnic groups within a country plays a key role in major social, political, and economic outcomes. Researchers working on the topic have various measures of ethnic dominance and exclusion, and other closely related aspects such as...

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Institutions and governance in Mozambique : a bird's eye view based on existing databases

Ferreira, Ines A. - 2024

Using publicly available databases and drawing on a wide range of indicators, this paper reviews the institutional … legitimacy and political leadership; and governance and state capacity. Overall, the selected indicators point to similar trends … the scores presented by the indicators are put into context, and that we understand the historical path of Mozambique, the …

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Do the effectiveness principles matter for development? : evidence from aid effectiveness data

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Justino, Patricia; Vaccaro, Andrea - 2023

adjustments to the indicators and data collection approaches, but many relate to inherent challenges to measurement in this area. …

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The Peruvian response to the COVID-19 pandemic : the role of evidence-based governance and structural violence

Gianella Malca, Camila - 2022

, narrowing it to a focus on certain indicators without analysing their feasibility. This approach to policy-making is a form of …

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