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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015
We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390407
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Towards inclusive green growth in Africa : critical energy efficiency synergies and governance thresholds
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel; Ojong, Nathanael - 2022
This study contributes to the scholarly literature on the drive towards sustainable development in light of the UN's Agenda 2030 and the African Union's Agenda 2063 by examining pathways through which energy efficiency (EE) promotes inclusive green growth (IGG) in Africa. Our contribution is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262630
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Why Ethnic Fractionalization? Polarization, Ethnic Conflict and Growth
García Montalvo, José; Reynal-Querol, Marta - 2003
This paper is an attempt to clarify the relationship between ethnic fractionalization, polarization and conflict. In recent years many authors have argued that ethnic fractionalization has a negative effect on growth because it increases the likelihood of conflicts. For this reason many growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014086798
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The role of governance and infrastructure in moderating the effect of resource rents on economic growth
Asongu, Simplice; Diop, Samba; Emeka, Ekene; Ogbonna, … - 2024
This study investigates how governance and infrastructure moderate the effect of natural resource rents on economic growth using a sample of 110 countries, including 47 African countries from 2000 to 2018. The empirical evidence is based on Panel Smooth Transition Regressions(PSTR). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057615
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Zimbabwe : Why is One of the World's Least-Free Economies Growing so Fast?
Richardson, Craig J. - 2013
Between 2009 and 2011, Zimbabwe's GDP growth averaged an impressive 7.3 percent, making it one of the world's fastest …-growing countries. Yet World Bank governance indicators place Zimbabwe's government among the world's worst, and the Fraser Institute …'s Economic Freedom of the World index ranks it as one of the world's least economically free countries. Zimbabwe's performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082079
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From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy : explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2018
Success in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of global employment in manufacturing will decline, manufacturing won't play the same role in the coming decades. An increase in manufacturing employment won't suffice to meet the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955468
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Mozambique's elite : finding its way in a globalized world and returning to old development models
Hanlon, Joseph; Mosse, Marcelo - 2010
What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its developmental roots and is trying to use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663003
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New financial development indicators : with a critical contribution to inequality empirics
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409823
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Globalization, (fighting) corruption and development : how are these phenomena linearly and nonlinearly related in wealth effects?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings valid when linearity assumptions are dropped? This paper assesses the Lalountas et al. (2011) hypotheses (conclusions) in the African context. Design/methodology/approach - Though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410065
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Normed Planning of Human Resource Development : A Roadmap Model Based on Worldwide Development Performances
Cohen, S. I. - 2015
Five decades after publication of the Correa-Tinbergen planning model for human resource development (HRD), the UNDP provided support and sponsored HRD policy making devices that aim at integrating methods based on economic accounting models with those based on international comparative...
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