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The role of the concept of sustainable development and its indicators in a study on the progress of the new UN goals

Szyja, Paulina - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 18 (2018) 1, pp. 387-409

Nowadays the world is facing a serious problem related to climate change and its repercussion for human beings. At the … same time, world societies are struggling with the consequences of the last economic crisis. These issues have not escaped …, economic and environmental situation. The Sustainable Development Goals are not the first priorities announced for the world …

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The international financial architecture and sustainable prosperity

Gallagher, Kevin - 2025

The international financial architecture is misaligned with the goals set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement. External financing flows to emerging-market and developing countries (excluding China) need be increasing by at least US$1 trillion annually from...

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A success of some sort : social enterprises and drip irrigation in the developing world

Venot, Jean-Philippe - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 79 (2016), pp. 69-81

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The "individualist entrepreneur" vs. socially sustainable development : can microfinance build community?

Warnecke, Tonia - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 48 (2014) 2, pp. 377-386

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Helping the poor help themselves : social enterprise and Ireland's peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836-1845

McLaughlin, Eoin; Pecchenino, Rowena A. - 2024 - Draft: August 2024

In the decade before the Great Famine, Ireland experienced a boom in microfinance institutions (MFIs). Taking a social enterprise perspective, this paper analyses the institutional context for this boom. It finds evidence linking the boom in MFIs to the development, via the introduction of the...

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Chapter 55 Transformation of Markets for Agricultural Output in Developing Countries Since 1950: How Has Thinking Changed?

Reardon, Thomas; Timmer, C. Peter - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2807-2855). 2007

This chapter traces the evolution of the agricultural economics literature on agrifood output markets over the past 50 years, emphasizing research approaches and policy issues. The analysis of agrifood systems encompasses the demand and supply side of output markets. The analysis in this chapter...

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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Pre-industrial and post-war economic development : is there a link?

Burkett, John P.; Humblet, Catherine; Putterman, Louis G. - 1997

What became the post-War era's "less developed countries" (LDCs) varied enormously in their pre- modern or pre-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as that of the demographer Ester Boserup, countries...

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Development in Africa

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018

. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for now, its position in the world system, it may nonetheless create the …

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Non-traditional aid and gender equity : evidence from million dollar donations

Osili, Una Okonkwo - 2013

This paper investigates the role of non-traditional aid in meeting global challenges in improving gender equality and gender-related socioeconomic needs in the twenty-first century. We define non-traditional aid as private donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations and use a newly...

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