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.
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Policy Brief: Employment expectations of university students in Mozambique

Results from a baseline survey

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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How do we legislate for improved community development?

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The role of participation in sustainable community development programmes in the extractives industries

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community development community participation Sustainable development
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The role of gender in the extractive industries

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extractives industry Gender equality Sustainable development
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Towards contribution analysis

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Contribution analysis Mining Sustainability
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Conclusion

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Foreign aid Climate change Sustainable development
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The Global Partnership on Foreign Aid for Sustainable Development

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Sustainable development Foreign aid
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Foreign Aid and Sustainable Agriculture in Africa

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

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Sustainable development Foreign aid Agriculture
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The Evolution, Paradigm Shift and Guidelines for Foreign Aid in Forestry

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Foreign aid Forestry REDD+
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Opportunities and Conditions for Successful Foreign Aid to the Forestry Sector

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Sustainable development Foreign aid Climate change
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Foreign Aid, Urbanization and Green Cities

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Sustainable development Urbanization Foreign aid
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Introduction

From the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Foreign aid Climate change Sustainable energy
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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
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Vertical and Horizontal Inequality in Ecuador: The Lack of Sustainability

We analyse the evolution of vertical and horizontal inequality in Ecuador in the long-run (1990–2016), as well as during and after the recent commodities boom (2005–2014)...

Equality and inequality Poverty Sustainable development
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Mini-documentary: Viet Nam’s data revolution is well on its way

The international community rarely calls for a revolution. In this case, it has. A data revolution, says UNU-WIDER Director Finn Tarp. Viet Nam has seen large changes to its economy since the advent of doi moi , the new beginning, in the 1980s...

Structural transformation Sustainable development SDG
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How do we legislate for improved community development?

A large mining project has the potential to be a partner in assisting local communities in their development efforts. Communities located in close proximity to a large mine have every right to expect that the project will benefit their community...

Community development agreement Mining Mining law
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