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The Poverty of Nations - The Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa
Morton, James - 2021
Why, after 30 years of aid, were so many African countries no better off in the 1980s than they had been at independence? Why, indeed, were so many of them slipping back and earlier economic achievements being undermined?Concentrating on Sudan, the Poverty of Nations examined what had gone wrong...
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The Dynamics of Man's History and Economic Development : A Refocus on Ecological Disturbance and Climate Change
CHIRWA, MULULU - 2023
Man’s history and developmental endeavour have been advancing alongside a trail of ecological ramifications and climate change. Since prehistoric times, scientists have not recorded an accelerated shift in ecology during any other epoch beside that of modern man on the planet. The paper seeks...
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Do economic, financial and institutional developments matter for environmental degradation? : evidence from transitional economies
Tamazian, Artur; Bhaskara Rao, Buddhavarapu - 2009
Several studies have examined the relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth. However, most of them did not take into account financial developments and institutional quality. Moreover, Stern (2004) noted that there are important econometric weaknesses in the earlier...
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Environmental Kuznets Curves for Air Pollution in African and Developed Countries : Exploring Turning Point Incomes and the Role of Democracy
Sulemana, Iddisah - 2016
environmental pollution. Scholars have estimated turning point incomes for various pollutants within and across countries. However … countries. In particular, the relationship between economic growth and air pollution in Africa remains largely unexplored. In … countries. Further, our examination of the effect of democracy on air pollution reveals an insignificant effect for CO2 for both …
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Economic globalisation, institutions and environmental quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Yameogo, Claire E. W.; Omojolaibi, Joseph Ayoola; … - In: Research in globalization 3 (2021), pp. 1-9
globalisation and institution has negative and significant effects on environmental pollution, thus contributing to environmental …
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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth After Liberalisation : An Analysis of Indian States
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - 2008
two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population …
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Themes in development economics : essays in honour of Malcolm Adiseshiah
Subramanian, S. (ed.); Adiseshiah, Malcolm S. (honouree);  … - 1992
Festschrift honoring S. Malcolm Adiseshiah, economist from India; essays, most with reference to Tamil Nadu …
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Economic growth and biodiversity : an overview : conservation policies in Africa
Iritié, Bi Goli Jean Jacques - 2015
From the economic literature on the relationship between economic growth and environment pioneered by Grossman and Krueger (1991) and Shafik and Bandyopadhyay (1992) we first conduct a theoretical and critical reflection on the existence of a Kuznets curve for biodiversity. It appears that...
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Depletion and Development : Natural Resource Supply with Endogenous Field Opening
Venables, Anthony J. - 2021
This paper develops a model in which supply of a non-renewable resource can adjust through two margins: the rate of depletion and the rate of field opening. Faster depletion of existing fields means that less of the resource can ultimately be extracted, and optimal depletion of open fields...
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Low-Carbon Development and Carbon Reduction in China
Lu, Ding - 2015
Reduction of carbon dioxide emission is of great significance to the sustainability of global development. For the developing countries, however, carbon reduction is perceived costly for its possible dampening effect on economic growth. This paper builds a Low-Carbon Development Index to assess...
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