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Resource Abundance, Poverty and Development
Bulte, Erwin H.; Damania, Richard; Deacon, Robert T. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004
The negative correlation between resource endowments and GDP growth remains one of the most robust findings in the empirical growth literature, and has been coined the “resource curse hypothesis”. The policy consequences of this result are potentially far reaching. If natural resources are...
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Low-Carbon Development and Carbon Reduction in China
Lu, Ding - 2015
set of 30 Chinese provincial economies from for the period 1998 to 2012, we evaluate the environmental efficiency of China …
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The Rise of China and India and the Commodity Boom : Economic and Environmental Implications for Low-Income Countries
Coxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, Sisira - 2008
The rapid growth of China and, more recently, of India, is having major effects on every facet of the global economy …. The supply of labor-intensive manufactured exports (from China in particular) has been accompanied by a huge expansion in …
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Ideology and economic change
Rubin, Jared; Ma, Debin - 2024
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Decentralization, reform of financial institutions and financial development in China
Ma, Ying; Chen, Bo; Zhou, Jianlin - 2011
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Decentralization and development of small cites : evidence from county-to-city upgrading in China
Tang, Wei - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 3, pp. 191-207
This paper examines how decentralization of administrative and fiscal authority affects the development of small cities … by exploiting a unique reform of county-to-city upgrading (chexiansheshi) in China. Based on a comprehensive county … simple decentralization framework with heterogeneous regions. These findings suggest that decentralization might generate …
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Mali - Land, Climate, Energy, Agriculture and Development : A Study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security
Coulibaly, Ousmane Nafolo - 2021
Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource management especially land and water together with...
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COVID-19 pandemic: Towards a blue recovery in small island developing states
OECD - 2021
Small island developing states (SIDS) are among the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, which is disrupting key economic sectors that SIDS’ undiversified and already fragile economies strongly rely upon. While they are succeeding to contain the health...
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The Economics of Biodiversity Loss
Giglio, Stefano; Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded model that captures how different species interact to deliver the ecosystem services that complement other factors of economic production. Aggregate ecosystem services are produced by combining several...
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Can Free Trade Be Part of Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development?
Pangestu, Mari; Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique - 2021
Trade has been a means to development by generating jobs, spurring economic growth, and reducing poverty. However, the gains from trade have shown to be less than equally distributed, hurting at times some localities and segments of countries’ populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has also shown...
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