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The governance of global value chains, the state, and small businesses : the case of timber in Myanmar

Rand, John; Castro Rodriguez, Paula; Tarp, Finn; … - 2019

We use the case of the timber industry in Myanmar to analyse how national regulatory frameworks and international ecological discourses affect forest management and small businesses. The state plays two roles in the timber industry in Myanmar: it is the main producer and legal source of raw...

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Enhancing the livelihoods of marginalized indigenous women through customary forests in Bali, Indonesia

Wibowo, Lukas R.; Hapsari, Maharani; Astuti, Rini; … - 2023

gain access to the benefits of the social forestry programme. We found that customary communities' dependence on forest …

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Leveraging global climate finance for sustainable forests : opportunities and conditions for successful foreign aid to the forestry sector

Pascual, Unai; Garmendia, Eneko; Phelps, Jacob; Ojea, Elena - 2013

. -- sustainable forest management ; foreign aid ; official development assistance ; climate change finance ; REDD+ ; forestry sector …

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Foreign aid and sustainable forestry

Kauppi, Pekka E. - 2013

Foreign aid can contribute to sustainable forestry in many ways. The goal is to secure forest benefits of the future …, without compromising the needs of the present generations. This paper elaborates on forestry aid as it has evolved in the past … forestry, although the methods are not yet sufficiently developed to become applied in tropical rain forests. The support of …

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Implementing EU renewable energy policy at the subnational level : navigating between conflicting interests

Lepesant, Gilles - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016

The European Union (EU) has set targets for gradually reducing greenhouse gas emissions through 2050. One of the instruments involved is the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive, which specifies a 20 per cent renewable energy target for the EU by 2020. This paper reviews tensions and institutional...

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Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa : an update

Steenkamp, Francois; Nyamela, Yanele; Bryer, Megan; … - 2025

This paper examines the services sector's contribution to the South African economy and the extent to which the sector can drive structural transformation. The South African economy has continued along a path of tertiarization and can be classified as a de facto services-based economy....

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The international financial architecture and sustainable prosperity

Gallagher, Kevin - 2025

The international financial architecture is misaligned with the goals set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement. External financing flows to emerging-market and developing countries (excluding China) need be increasing by at least US$1 trillion annually from...

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Is there a fiscal resource curse? : resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies

Masi, Tania; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020

States' fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in...

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The developer's dilemma : a survey of structural transformation and inequality dynamics

Alisjahbana, Armida S.; Kim, Kyunghoon; Sen, Kunal; … - 2020

This paper discusses the 'developer's dilemma' - a tension emerging from the fact that developing countries are simultaneously seeking structural transformation and broad-based growth to raise incomes of the poor. Simon Kuznets originally hypothesized that structural transformation may have a...

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Educational inequality in Mozambique

Berg, Servaas van der; Maia, Carlos da; Burger, Cobus - 2017

In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to higher levels of education (there are 30 times as...

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