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Clean development mechanism: Perspectives from developing countries
Sari, Agus P.; Meyers, Stephen - 2008
This paper addresses the political acceptability and workability of CDM by and in developing countries. At COP-3 in Kyoto in 1997, the general position among developing countries changed from strong rejection of joint implementation to acceptance of CDM. The outgrowth of CDM from a proposal from...
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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11.471 Targeting the Poor: Small Firms, Workers, and Local Economic Development, Fall 2004
Tendler, Judith - 2004
Covers conditions under which public-sector policies, programs, and projects succeed in enhancing the economic activities of poorer groups and micro-regions in developing countries. Topics include local economic development; small enterprises; various forms of collective action; labor and worker...
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The financial sustainability of South Africa's National Development Finance Institutions
Mulusa, Lucky Mabenga - 2008
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in South Africa can enhance their role as prime vehicles for the Government to achieve the social objectives of meeting the millennium goals. This can be achieved by ensuring that higher ratios of resources available to the DFIs are...
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Local Economic Development Agencies' Support for Construction and Demolition Recycling
Patterson, Lynn M. - 2007
The construction and demolition (C and D) recycling industry creates economic opportunity through business activity; promotes equity through workforce training and partnerships; and helps to conserve natural resources through the reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling of C and D debris. While C...
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Lietuvos ekonominį išsivystymą apibūdinančių makroekonominių rodiklių tyrimas 2002 – 2005 metais
Butkutė, Jolanta; Martinkutė, Agnė - 2007
Baigiamajame magistro darbe analizuojama ekonominio vystymosi koncepcija, remiantis užsienio ir lietuvių autorių pateiktais ekonominio augimo modeliais, darnaus vystymosi teorija bei ekonominių išteklių klasifikacija. Analitinėje-tiriamojoje darbo dalyje pateikiamas Lietuvos ekonomikos...
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Cultural frameworks
Rana, Ratna; Piracha, Awais; Nadaraja, M.; Yamamoto, … - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2007
Every epoch seems to be characterized by a world view of what is good and desirable for society, and the present pursuit of development, and more recently sustainable development, reflects this world view. Consequently, despite the vast expansion in the world?s capacity to produce material goods...
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Innovation policy framework for sustainable development in regional economies : An Australian perspective
Courvisanos, Jerry - 2008
The paper develops a broad macroeconomic innovation policy framework for ecologically sustainable economic development that can be applied to regional economies, from the perspective of Australia. Australia is one of the three huge per capita greenhouse emitting nations in the world. The...
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT VERSUS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Scutaru, Liliana - 2013
The paper put in antithesis, theoretically, two models of development and evolution of mankind, namely, economic development based on consumption of the exhaustible resources and pollution and on the other hand the development based on the concepts of sustainable development, involving a new...
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Abfall- und Kreislaufwirtschaftlicher Transformationsprozess in Deutschland und in China : Analyse - Vergleich - Übertragbarkeit
Läpple, Fang - 2007
transferiert werden. Durch die Analyse der historischen Entwicklung der Abfall- und Kreislaufwirtschaft und des Abfallgesetzes … sowie der Auswirkungen der unterschiedlichen Akteure, wie Staat, Wirtschaft und Bürger, auf die Entwicklung der Abfall- und … Kreislaufwirtschaft gefördert. Die Kreislaufwirtschaft entspricht dem Konzept der Nachhaltigen Entwicklung der UN-Umweltkonferenz von Rio …
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