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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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arrest the increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio and regain fiscal sustainability, and if so, why did they fail? Establishing … fiscal sustainability can be done directly or indirectly. Doing it directly entails the government increasing the primary … sustainability is through the impact of expenditure and revenue on economic growth. Leaving revenue for further study later, this …
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sustainability in Tanzania, focusing on external debt. Though current and previous analyses using the IMF-World Bank debt … sustainability framework indicate low risk of public external debt distress, these analyses are sensitive to exchange rate volatility … borrowing. Moreover, empirical evidence of debt sustainability based on the fiscal reaction function approach is weak. The …
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This paper empirically examines South Africa's fiscal sustainability through a Markovswitching model which utilizes …
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mining companies and their host communities has been fractious, without a clear path towards sustainability. The severe …
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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...
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This paper examines multiple facets of New Delhi's development cooperation with countries in Africa and argues that grassroots organizations in India that find innovative, low-cost technological solutions to developmental challenges can help governments and multilateral agencies craft inclusive,...
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Understanding the political economic drivers of energy planning in the Brazilian Amazon is critical since the forest is increasingly vulnerable to destruction and related, increased poverty. This research investigates how political economy affects biomass and hydroelectricity development in that...
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This paper puts sub-Saharan Africa's economic development into perspective. While much did not go as hoped for at independence, much of the region has been on a more promising development trajectory since the mid-1990s, as we illustrate using growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We...
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The aim of this study is to identify needs for recovery from people's perspectives under a localized context following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. A qualitative approach was applied to collecting and processing data which consist of 114 semi-structured interviews with earthquake-resettled...
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