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Go, Delfin S. - 2008

In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the …

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Sustainable Development Goal Diagnostics : The Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Amin-Salem, H. - 2018

The United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals are comprehensive and holistic in nature, encompassing 17 goals and 169 targets covering economic, social, and environmental dimensions of development. Countries face the challenge of translating the Sustainable Development...

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Multi-Hazard Groundwater Risks to the Drinking Water Supply in Bangladesh : Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Shamsudduha, Mohammad - 2019

Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity (that is, water storage depletion) vary across hydrological environments, posing unique...

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Agriculture, Aid and Economic Growth in Africa

McArthur, John - 2018

How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically …

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Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View

Enache, Maria - 2017

This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...

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Structural Transformation and Productivity Growth in Africa : Uganda in the 2000s

Ahmed, Sabin - 2017

Uganda?s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in aggregate employment rose by about 7 percentage points at the expense of the production of tradable goods. The process also involved a 12-percentage-point shift in employment away...

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Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, And"Development Traps"

Golub, Alexander - 2017

This paper examines the possibility of environmental "development traps," or "brown poverty traps," caused by interactions between the impacts of climate change and increasing returns in the development of "clean-technology" sectors. A simple specification is used in which the economy can...

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Housing Finance and Inclusive Growth in Africa : Benchmarking, Determinants, and Effects

Nguena, Christian Lambert - 2017

the structure of housing finance in Africa, its determinants, and its impact on inclusive growth. The findings show that … of demand and supply. In addition, the analysis finds that housing finance development in Africa is not yet an effective … housing finance and greater economic development in Africa. All these findings suggest that policies to boost housing finance …

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On the Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Islamic Finance

Ahmed, Habib - 2017

The Sustainable Development Goals, the global development agenda for 2015 through 2030, will require unprecedented mobilization of resources to support their implementation. Their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, focused on a limited number of concrete, global human development...

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Sustainable Development Goals Diagnostics : An Application of Network Theory and Complexity Measures to Set Country Priorities

El-Maghrabi, M. H. - 2018

The United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals are comprehensive and holistic in nature, as they includes 17 goals and 169 targets covering economic, social, and environmental dimensions of development. In this context, policy makers face the challenge of translating the...

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