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Building China's soft power for a peaceful rise

Li, Xin; Worm, Verner - 2009

strategy is in accordance to Chinese Confucian culture and political value and fits well with its grand strategy of peaceful …

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The political economy of green growth: Illustrations from Southern Africa

Resnick, Danielle; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - 2012

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 rather than being win-win, green growth is similar to...

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Human rights impact assessments as a new tool for development policy?

Baxewanos, Fabiane; Raza, Werner - 2013

Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail...

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Thermodynamic optimisation of the biofuel production based on mutualism

Grisolia, Giulia; Fino, Debora; Lucia, Umberto - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020), pp. 1561-1571

Recently, we have introduced a new bioeconomic indicator in order to avoid the difficulties in evaluating the process and technologies for sustainability. In this paper, we wish to improve this new indicator for the analysis of sustainability. Indeed, the indicator has been based on the exergy...

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Evaluating environment in international development

Uitto, Juha I. (contributor) - 2021

This book provides novel and in-depth perspectives on evaluating environment and sustainability issues in developing countries. Evaluating Environment in International Development focuses on the approaches and experiences of leading international organizations, not-for-profits, and multilateral...

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Beyond industrialization: New approaches to development strategy based on the service sector

Sheehan, Peter - 2008

Industrialization occupies a central place in the rich tapestry of development theory and practice. Although that place has varied over time, many have agreed with Nicholas Kaldor that the kind of economic growth that leads to high real income per capita can only occur through industrialization....

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India's development strategy accidents, design and replicability

Singh, Nirvikar - 2009

This paper examines India's development strategy, and to what extent it may be considered a success. It provides a brief history of why and how the strategy was adopted, as well as of its implementation, including the role of initial conditions, such as human capital, geographical location, and...

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On the choice of appropriate development strategy: Insights from CGE modelling of the Mozambican economy

Tarp Jensen, Henning; Tarp, Finn - 2001

This paper makes use of a 1997 computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse three potential strategies that Mozambique can pursue unilaterally with a view to initiating a sustainable development process. They include (i) an agriculture-first strategy, (ii) an agricultural-development...

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Development strategies: Lessons from the experiences of South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam

Khan, Haider A. - 2010

This piece synthesizes the development strategies of Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam and draws some relevant lessons. Using a complex adaptive systems approach, strategic openness, a set of heterodox macroeconomic policies, creation of institutions for productive investment in both...

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Social democracy as a development strategy

Moene, Karl Ove - 2003

, homogeneous and affluent societies with an extraordinary commitment to equality. In third world countries that are conflict … feasibility of the social democratic model of development in the third world. First, we argue that consensus, homogeneity, and … world in the context of an increasingly integrated global economy? …

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