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How Much Does Natural Resource Extraction Really Diminish National Wealth? The Implications of Discovery - Working Paper 290

Gelb, Alan; Kaiser, Kai; Vinuela, Lorena - 2012

The paper considers the process of discovery for subsoil resources, including both hard minerals and hydrocarbons and estimates its magnitude in recent years, as derived from the sum of extraction and changes in proven reserves. Spurred on by technology change and strong market conditions,...

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Managing Natural Resources for Human Development in Low-Income Countries

Conceição, Pedro; Fuentes, Ricardo; Levine, Sebastian - UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations … - 2011

This paper presents some of the evidence that underlies the recent change in perceptions on African development and we discuss some of the key challenges facing the continent going forward. It intends to generate a debate among UNDP senior managers in Sub-Saharan Africa and make the paper a...

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Assessment of the Impacts of Oil : Opportunities and Challenges for Economic Development in Sudan

Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed - 2011

This paper provides an assessment of the impacts of oil and discusses the opportunities and challenges for enhancing economic development in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis in this paper is that we provide a more comprehensive analysis using the most recent secondary data to discuss the...

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Technologizing Humanitarian Space : Darfur Advocacy and the Rape-Stove Panacea

Abdelnour, Samer; Saeed, Akbar M. - 2017

We examine how an unassuming domestic technology — the fuel-efficient stove — came to be construed as an effective tool for reducing sexual violence globally. Highlighting the process of problematization, the linking of problems with actionable solutions, we show how US-based humanitarian...

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Global Capitalism and Sustainable Development

Bradford, Wylie D. - 2002

the major issues involved in defining sustainability, and the relationship thereof to development and the behaviour of … fundamental changes in values that are required if sustainability to be achieved and maintained …

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Is Education Neglected in Natural Resources-Rich Countries? An Intergenerational Approach in Africa

Atsebi, Jean-Marc; Ouedraogo, Rasmané; Séri, Regina - 2022

The literature on the effects of natural resources on education is mixed and inconclusive. In this paper, we adopt an innovative approach by exploring the effects of mineral discoveries and productions on intergenerational educational mobility (IM), linking parents to the children education...

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Are We Consuming Too Much?

Arrow, Kenneth J.; Dasgupta, Partha; Goulder, Lawrence H.; … - 2011

consumption path that maximizes the present discounted value of utility. The other is a sustainability criterion, which requires … approaches by offering a formula for the sustainability criterion that accounts for population growth and technological change …. In applying this formula, we find that some poor regions of the world are failing to meet the sustainability criterion …

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Public savings in Africa : do sovereign wealth funds serve development?

Addison, Tony; Lebdioui, Amir - 2022

Do sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) contribute to Africa's development? This paper assesses the objectives of SWFs (fiscal stabilization, productive investment, intergenerational saving) and discusses alternatives. We argue that fiscal stabilization funds are often necessary, but entail...

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Innovation and dimensions of sustainable development : mediating role of ICTs

Almawishir, Naeimah Fahad S.; Benlaria, Houcine - In: Cogent business & management 11 (2024) 1, pp. 1-18

profound beneficial consequences in the area of social sustainability, it is, however, likely to have a negligible influence on … between innovation and sustainability, whereby it positively mediates over all the dimensions of sustainability, and the … strongest mediation effect was observed on environmental sustainability. The findings bear testimony to the fact that …

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Development based on commodity revenues

Plekhanov, Alexander; Guriev, Sergei; Sonin, Konstantin - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - 2009

Commodity resources offer vast opportunities for development. In the long run, however, the performance of commodity-rich countries tends to fall short of expectations, as commodity rents induce macroeconomic volatility and undermine incentives to improve institutions. The paper looks at the...

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