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Journal Article: How polarized is the global income distribution?

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution.
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Policy Brief: The business environment of Mozambican manufacturing firms

The 2017 Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms builds on data collected in 2012 from surviving firms to trace how changing economic conditions have affected the development of firms over five years.

Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

The central goal of the project is to support inclusive growth, growth that substantially improves the living standards of the Mozambican population.
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Journal Special Issue: Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

This journal presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place. The journal, as the studies in this collection, gives special emphasis to the role natural endowments, p
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Book Chapter
Conclusions

From the book: Extractive Industries

Mining Extractive industries Climate change
Book Chapter
Climate change and the extractives sector

From the book: Extractive Industries

Extractive industries Climate change Environment and climate
Book Chapter
Extractives for development: Introduction and ten main messages

From the book: Extractive Industries

Oil and gas Resource revenues Mining
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Extractive Industries: The Management of Resources as a Driver of Sustainable Development

Early view: When published this book will become Open Access...

Resource revenues Climate change Mining
Working Paper
Climate change and the extractives sector

The extractives industries must adjust their operations to shifting patterns of demand for oil, natural gas, and coal together with metals and minerals – as policies and new technologies encourage progress along low-carbon pathways in energy, t...

Extractives Oil Natural gas
Book Chapter
Conclusion

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Foreign aid Climate change Sustainable development
Book Chapter
Foreign Aid and Sustainable Agriculture in Africa

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Agriculture Sustainable development Food security
Book Chapter
Financing Sustainable Agriculture under Climate Change with a Specific Focus on Foreign Aid

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Sustainable development Foreign aid Agriculture
Book Chapter
Opportunities and Conditions for Successful Foreign Aid to the Forestry Sector

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Sustainable development Foreign aid Climate change
Book Chapter
A Review of the Nature of Foreign Aid to the Energy Sector over the Last Two Decades

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Foreign aid Energy sector Climate change
Book Chapter
Lessons Learnt about Foreign Aid for Climate Change Related Capacity-Building

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Foreign aid Climate change Capacity building
Book Chapter
Foreign Aid for Capacity Building to Address Climate Change

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Foreign aid Capacity building Climate change
Book Chapter
Introduction

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Foreign aid Climate change Sustainable energy
Book
Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century...

Foreign aid Climate change Sustainable energy
SA-TIED work stream 5: Climate and energy as drivers of change

The unavoidable warming and potential substantial departures from prevailing weather patterns associated with climate change are likely to be major drivers of migration, agriculture, and international trade in Southern Africa, and globally. The...

Energy infrastructure Climate change Water allocation
Policy Brief
 Aid, environment and climate change Foreign aid Climate change Environment
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