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Sustainable nations : what do aggregate indicators tell us?
Pillarisetti, Janaki Ram; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
What is a 'sustainable nation’ and how can we identify and rank ‘sustainable nations’? Are nations producing and consuming in a sustainable way? Aggregate indicators have been proposed to answer these questions. This paper quantitatively compares three aggregate indicators of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374434
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Sustainable Nations : What do Aggregate Indicators Tell Us?
Pillarisetti, Ram; van den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. - 2008
What is a 'sustainable nation' and how can we identify and rank 'sustainable nations'? Are nations producing and consuming in a sustainable way? Aggregate indicators have been proposed to answer these questions. This paper quantitatively compares three aggregate indicators of sustainability: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220693
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Sustainability for All? A North-South-East-West Model
Borghesi, Simone; Ulph, David - 2014
This paper examines whether it is possible for all countries to simultaneously achieve efficient and sustainable allocations of resources even if they do not cooperate in a world with inter-generational and intra-generational externalities. Using a simple model with two governments - one for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115022
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Development and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa
Addison, Tony; Pikkarainen, Ville; Rönkkö, Risto; … - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777012
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The Day After Comrade Bob : Applying Post-Conflict Reconstruction Lessons to Zimbabwe
Moss, Todd J. - 2007
Zimbabwe is a country on the edge. It may technically be at peace, but it is suffering war-like trauma to its polity … Zimbabwe's political structure and economy by providing technical and legal assistance, sending immediate food aid, helping to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730163
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The Expansion of Regional Supermarket Chains and Implications For Local Suppliers : A Comparison of Findings From South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Das Nair, Reena - 2017
paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962360
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The Expansion of Regional Supermarket Chains : Changing Models of Retailing and the Implications for Local Supplier Capabilities in South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Das Nair, Reena - 2017
Over the past two decades, southern African countries have experienced rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets. Several factors have been attributed to this growth, including increasing urbanization, increased per capita income, the rise of the middle class, economies of scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962363
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The expansion of regional supermarket chains and implications for local suppliers : a comparison of findings from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2016
paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582501
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Export controls and competitiveness in African mining and minerals processing industries
Fliess, Barbara A.; Idsardi, Ernst; Rossouw, Riaan - 2017
in Zambia and chromite in Zimbabwe. For the empirical analysis the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695370
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Measuring Institutions : Indicators of Political Rights, Property Rights and Political Instability in Zimbabwe
Fedderke, Johannes W.; Gwenhamo, Farayi; De Kadt, Raphael - 2011
The current, persistent growth problem in Zimbabwe is often attributed to poor economic and political institutional … Zimbabwe covering the period 1946 to 2005. While the new indices span for a significantly longer time period, they are highly … contributes towards understanding the institutional dimension of Zimbabwe's persistent economic decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183395