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Republic of Madagascar; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on the Republic of Madagascar explain the Madagascar Action Plan (MAP) to accelerate and better coordinate the development process. The National Leadership Institute of Madagascar (NLIM) was created in 2006 to provide cutting-edge training to build...
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Russian Manufacturing and the Threat of ‘Dutch Disease': A Comparison of Competitiveness Developments in Russian and Ukrainian Industry
Ahrend, Rudiger; Rosa, Donato de; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with broadly similar institutions, industrial structures and levels of … technology, and the economic reforms implemented in the two countries were also similar, although Ukraine was reckoned to lag … endowments. In short, Ukraine could provide a rough approximation of how a resource-poor Russia might have developed over the …
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Measuring National Income and Growth in Resource-Rich, Income-Poor Countries
Hamilton, Kirk; Ley, Eduardo - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 28, pp. 1-7
GDP, the leading economic measurement, is outdated and misleading. . . . It’s like grading a corporation based on today’s cash flow and forgetting to depreciate assets and other costs. – Joseph Stiglitz, “Good Numbers Gone Bad,” Fortune, October 2, 2006.
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Economic Depreciation of Natural Resources in Asia and Implications for Net Savings and Long-Run Consumption
Vincent, J.; Casteneda, B. - Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), … - 1997
Rents from extracting natural resources (minerals and roundwood) were equivalent to a fifth or more of gross domestic savings in at least one year during 1970-92 in nearly all countries in a sample of fourteen from Asia. This was the case even in China and India, which are not usually thought of...
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Umweltschutz und Beschäftigung in Deutschland
Sprenger, Rolf-Ulrich - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 49 (1996) 28, pp. 06-15
Umwelschutzausgaben zurückzuführen waren. Damit erreichte der Querschnittssektor Umweltschutz - mit 2,7 % der Erwerbstätigen … den neuen Bundesländern mehr als 40 % der Arbeitsplätze im Umweltschutz dem sog. zweiten Arbeitsmarkt zuzuschreiben ist. …
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Public Expenditure Policy and the Environment; A Review and Synthesis
Miranda, Kenneth M.; Parry, Ian W.H.; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993
Commonly cited environmental instruments in the legal, regulatory, and fiscal domains are intended primarily to address market failures to ensure that environmental degradation and resource use is contained to appropriate levels. However, in many instances, environmental degradation is rooted...
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Inter-Sectoral Linkages and Local Content in Extractive Industries and Beyond; The Case of Sao tome and Principe
Segura, Alonso; Zarate, Walter; Pastor, Gonzalo C.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper attempts to offer specific inputs to the debate on local content promotion in the oil industry, using the specific case of São Tomé and Príncipe as point of reference. Our approach emphasizes inter-sectoral linkages and institutional pre-conditions for local content promotion....
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Ghana; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Ghana has pursued several programs to accelerate the growth of the economy. In 1995, the government presented “Ghana: Vision 2020,†aimed at making Ghana a middle-income country in 25 years. Vision 2020 focused on human development, economic growth, rural development, urban...
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ОСОБЕННОСТИ ОТРАЖЕНИЯ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ЗАТРАТ В ОТЧЕТНОСТИ
КОЗЕЛЬСКАЯ С.В. - In: ВЕСТНИК САРАТОВСКОГО … (2011) 3, pp. 111-113
В настоящее время в российском законодательстве практически не решены вопросы отчетности по результа­там природоохранной деятельности. Как статистическая,...
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Identifying the Linkages Between Major Mining Commodity Prices and China’s Economic Growth-Implications for Latin America
Yu, Yongzhen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Major mining commodity prices are inherently volatile and cyclical. High levels of investment in China have been a key driver in the strong world demand for minerals and metals over the past decade. The urbanization and industrialization of China has been an important factor behind the increase...
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