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• Environmental policy
• Natural disasters
• Renewable energy

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by Katrina Jurva July 2017

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...

• Structural transformation
• SDGs
• Sustainable development

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This paper discusses the recent history of education aid policy. It highlights an important shift in policy thinking in the international aid architecture that has dominated the global education aid agenda since the early 1990s. It argues that...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Education

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Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Climate change
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Fisheries

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Much of the debate on green growth and environmental governance tends to be general in nature, and is often conceptual or limited to single disciplines. Even though recent discussions on these topics have benefited from the accumulation of empirical...

• Economic development
• Environment and economic development
• Economic policy

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This paper examines the political economy aspects, particularly the influence of the Clean Development Mechanism, in clean energy and climate change policies in the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. The different mechanisms for...

• Renewable energy
• Sustainable development
• Climate change

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Part of Journal Special Issue Bioenergy in Southern Africa

• Biofuel
• Bioenergy
• Technology maturity

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Sustainable development is a long-term process, and as such must be examined carefully. Development implies structural changes of many different types, ranging from purely economic aspects to those affecting the personal circumstances of people...

• Public debt
• International trade
• Sustainable development

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This paper explores the implications of climate change for industrial policy (IP). Five implications are discussed, namely the need for international coordination of IPs; for putting human development, and not emission targets, as the overriding...

• Climate change
• Environment and economic development
• Industrial policy

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This paper analyses debt relief efforts by creditors to alleviate the debt burden of low-income countries. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative builds on traditional debt relief, and for the first time involves relief on multilateral...

• Public debt
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Government spending policy

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This paper evaluates Cameroon’s foreign debt situation by analysing its evolution (structure, debt service payment, debt ratio, borrowing conditions, etc.). The analysis is extended by examining the internal debt situation, taking into account its...

• Public debt
• Economic policy
• Local history

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The concept of ‘green growth’ implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic prosperity and poverty alleviation, can be easily reconciled with environmental sustainability. This study, however, argues that...

• Economic development
• Environment and economic development
• Economic policy

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The concept of Green Growth implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic prosperity and poverty alleviation, can be easily reconciled with environmental sustainability. This article, however, argues that...

• Economic development
• Environment and economic development
• Economic policy

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The Mekong River is the major water source in Southeast Asia and shared by six countries. There is a rush to acquire sources of alternative energy and other benefits to meet the growing demand for water and energy, while China and Myanmar have...

• Environment
• Game theory
• International relations

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• Agricultural industries
• Forests and forestry
• Land use

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• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Sustainable development