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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the reserves and production of natural gas in Africa and evaluate how … in Africa, it has had minimal impact on power production. Limitations: This study provides a descriptive overview and is … limited to only natural gas. It does not consider how other energy sources can contribute to solving Africa's power challenges …
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the advantages of natural gas as a potential solution to Africa's power ….Findings: The key finding is that despite increased discovery of natural gas in Africa, it has had minimal impact on power … other energy sources can contribute to solving Africa's power challenges.Policy implications: This paper will draw the …
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Companies in the oil, gas, and mining sectors face ever intensifying scrutiny over their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices and impacts: from civil society but also from investment funds and other stakeholders with ESG mandates. Companies with good practices-and the paper...
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In order to meet China’s rapidly increasing demand for oil, Chinese oil companies have been investing in oil production … demand for natural resources which is the impact that its oil companies will have on the corporate social responsibility (CSR … their investments in sub-Saharan Africa. …
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long-run import demand models for crude oil using data over the period 1980-2012. Results show that demand for crude oil is … demand. Policy implications of our results are presented. …
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the reserves and production of natural gas in Africa and evaluate how … in Africa, it has had minimal impact on power production. Limitations:This study provides a descriptive overview and is … limited to only natural gas. It does not consider how other energy sources can contribute to solving Africa’s power challenges …
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This paper contributes to the literature by investigating the effect of natural resources on under-five mortality in a sample of 50 African countries over the period 1996 to 2018. We also examine the extent to which governance shapes the relationship between natural resources and under-five...
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This paper provides new empirical evidences to the Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson’s hypothesis that extraction colonies led to the development of poor-quality institutions. To proceed, we use an original dataset that contains a variable measuring the level of colonial extraction. We link this...
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We investigate whether mining affects local-level corruption in Africa. Several cross-country analyses report that …. A closer study of South Africa - using even more precise spatial matching of mines and survey respondents - corroborates …
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The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...
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