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Book: Extractive Industries

Open access | New initiatives recognize that resource wealth can provide a means, when properly used, for poorer nations to decisively break with poverty by diversifying economies and funding development spending.
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Journal Special Issue: Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change

Open access | This journal special issue offers conceptual, theoretical, and empirical reasons for treating horizontal inequality as an outcome and challenging assumptions of fixity.

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 Article: Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after Apartheid

Open access | This article investigates progress in reducing the high level of racial stratification of occupations after apartheid in South Africa.
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 Bust before boom: New gas finds, investments, and their implications in Mozambique Economic diversification Economic transformation Extractive industries
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Mozambique—bust before boom: Reflections on investment surges and new gas

This paper is a sequel to an earlier paper that looked in broad terms at many of the issues that Mozambique faces today in managing its new extractive resources...

Economic diversification Economic transformation Extractive industries
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New book from Oxford University Press looks at how to make extractive industries sustainable and inclusive
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Originally posted by Oxford Policy Management The extractives sector, and the way it works, continues to change rapidly and its importance to many lower-income economies continues to increase...

Extractive industries Resource curse Policy coordination
Research Brief
Potential benefits and pitfalls of extractives in Mozambique: Lessons from international experience

Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its extractive industries...

Extractive industries Resource curse Policy coordination
Working Paper
Extractive industries and development: Lessons from international experience for Mozambique

In common with several other low-income African economies, in recent years Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its long-established extractives industries...

Extractive industries Resource curse Policy coordination
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Urbanization in Asia Photo: UN Photo/Kibae Park Asian transformations - an inquiry into the development of nations

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Asia Economic transformation Cross-country analysis
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