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Extractive industries and development : lessons from international experience for Mozambique
Roe, Alan - 2018
In common with several other low-income African economies, in recent years Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its long-established extractives industries. Huge new gas finds in particular have led to expectations that these industries will contribute very...
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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015
We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
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Mozambique's elite : finding its way in a globalized world and returning to old development models
Hanlon, Joseph; Mosse, Marcelo - 2010
What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its developmental roots and is trying to use the...
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Climate change and economic growth prospects for Malawi : an uncertainty approach
Arndt, Channing; Schlosser, Adam; Strzepek, Kenneth M.; … - 2014
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 three impact channels: agriculture, road infrastructure,...
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Foreign aid and climate change policy : what can('t) the data tell us?
Kono, Daniel Y.; Montinola, Gabriella R. - 2019
Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging US$100 billion annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have little evidence that climate aid actually encourages...
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
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Is there a fiscal resource curse? : resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies
Masi, Tania; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020
States' fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in...
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From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy : explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2018
Success in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of global employment in manufacturing will decline, manufacturing won't play the same role in the coming decades. An increase in manufacturing employment won't suffice to meet the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955468
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Environmental and climate finance in a new world : how past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid
Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley; Peratsakis, … - 2013
In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200830
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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications
Victor, David G. - 2013
The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...
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