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Rethinking African debt and exploitation of natural resourcesIn Africa, there is a distressing correlation between debt and the need to export raw materials. A new paradigm is needed in which African countries...
In Africa, there is a distressing correlation between debt and the need to export raw materials. A new paradigm is needed in which African countries...
We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial...
This paper applies an environmentally extended input–output analysis, leveraging the Eora database, to estimate the global raw material footprints of 51 African nations from 1995 to 2015. It employs least absolute shrinkage and selection operator and...
Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously...