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Fiscal state capacity
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A plethora of work has been done on the effectiveness of foreign aid. However, virtually none of the previous cross- country macro studies have investigated the impact of aid on social cohesion. Yet, in order to promote the achievement of the targets in SDG 16, donors and global partners of...
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– A political economy of overoptimism
The contribution of this study is to question the ‘official’ estimates of global monetary poverty up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue there is a political economy of overoptimism in the measurement of global poverty. Specifically, we show that the methodological and presentational...
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– National and subnational influences
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Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
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– Are LDCs being left behind?
The study paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19’s impact on global poverty in the light of IMF’s growth forecasts. It shows that the pandemic will erode many of the gains recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction. Our baseline case suggests that globally the number of...
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Public economics and development action
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Horizontal inequality in the Global South
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Bioenergy in Southern Africa
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– A Multi-Sector Impact Assessment for Vietnam
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Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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– Evidence from Artisanal Marine Fishing in Ghana
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Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Climate Change and the Zambezi River Valley
The UNFCCC COP 17 Durban conference confirmed the need to reach an all-party-inclusive global climate agreement by 2015 as the successor of the Kyoto Protocol. Although this Durban ‘road map’ is promising, the international negotiation process for reaching such a deal is bound to be filled with...
One of the dual objectives of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol is to assist host countries in achieving sustainable development. With various CDM indicators for 58 CDM host countries over the period 2005-2010, this paper empirically assesses whether CDM project development...
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