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phase 3. Southern Africa, specifically those in the Southern African Development Community, is used as a case study. We find …
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levelized cost of energy to guide investment decisions. This can lead to spurious conclusions when evaluating intermittent power … that the value of high penetrations of solar in 2012 exceeds their potential investment cost. Under three 2017 generation … scenarios, the investment value of solar remains high if planned investments in low-cost geothermal, imported hydro, and wind …
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natural resource revenues towards achieving structural change and industrial development. We use industrial organization and …-building programmes; greater access for local contractors to existing financing sources, including the Skill Development Levy; a review …/-resourced research and development programmes. …
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The state has played a major role in the most important developmental successes. This paper discusses the advances in our understanding of the role of the state in the developmental process over the past thirty years, and the contribution to those advances played by changes in economics, changes...
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Liberalizing trade has proven highly challenging for some low-income countries, as a large share of their tax extraction derives from trade taxation. After significant drops in tariff levels over the last 30 years, the recovery of lost revenues by other sources of taxation has been highly uneven...
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This paper synthesizes statistical information evidencing the proposition that extractive industries are of great significance in many low- and middle-income developing economies. It examines the scale of the current dependence of low- and middle-income economies on both types of extractive...
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development literature that collects empirical regularities pointing toward the existence of strategic decision-making among …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded household surveys with aid projects. This offers a middle way between project evaluations and aggregated cross-country comparisons, measuring an average community effect around...
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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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This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …
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