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traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest …
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The Charter for Wood 2.0 (CfW 2.0) aims to increase the contribution of forestry and forest-based industries to climate … change mitigation; maintain and improve value creation and competitiveness of the forestry and wood cluster; and conserve …
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contradict conventional wisdom in forestry, we believe that this report contributes valuable insights to the continued efforts to … further sustainable forestry in Tanzania. We begin by outlining the global ideals of participatory forestry. We then present … before concluding with some general recommendations for improving participatory forestry policy and guidelines. …
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evaluated the sales expectations of forestry related biotechnological applications within the domestic forestry cluster itself …, other potential domestic industries and global export markets. The third step assessed whether the development of forestry … represents the beginning of the value chain : forestry applications. Module 2 consists of the development of wood products …
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This paper provides a framework to assess correlations between the change of institutional functions (political centralization, plurality, rule of law, security of property, economic liberty, measured by 12 indicators) and improvements in human development (income, education, health) and...
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The Congo region is one of the best examples of the negative consequences of world market integration (and hence globalization) in the world. Today's Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is an almost perfectly failing state - although not necessarily with respect to a state's function as a...
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We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of conflict. We obtain a closed-form characterization of the...
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This paper explores the connections between cross border trade, armed rebellion, and state making in the borderland of North Kivu province (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) and Kasese (Western Uganda) during the recent war to peace transition (1990's-2003). Rather than collapsed statehood...
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A new DIIS study presents an overview of the role of transit taxes levied at checkpoints in financing ongoing conflicts around the world. Compiling evidence from six different contexts, this DIIS Working Paper finds that in each of the conflicts, checkpoints form a key source of revenue for...
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