Why Does Development Fail in Resource Rich Economies: The Catch 22 of Mineral Wealth, Elissaios Papyrakis
Автор: Richard M.Auty, Raymond F. Mikesell Название: Sustainable Development in Mineral Economies ISBN: 0198294875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198294870 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 26928.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Mineral economies are less successful than their resource-deficient neighbours. This book examines this paradox, detailing problems faced by mineral economies. It claims the key factor is not the initial growth, but the maintenance of the economic and social conditions for sustaining that growth.
Автор: Kabanda Patrick Название: The creative wealth of nations ISBN: 1108437680 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108437684 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A holistic perspective on development looks beyond the expansion of material means, considering the enrichment of people`s lives. The arts are an indispensable asset in this approach towards the comprehensive improvement of lives. Patrick Kabanda demonstrates how and why applying the arts in development promotes meaningful economic and social progress.
Описание: The Shanghai basic education system has garnered significant attention since its extraordinary performance in the 2009 and 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a global assessment of 15-year-olds' educational abilities. Among the 65 participating economies in 2012, Shanghai-China ranked first on all three major domains of PISA, i.e. mathematics, reading, and science. Shanghai also stands out for having the world's highest percentage of "resilient students", students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who emerge as top performers. Shanghai's PISA story has generated intense discussions and diverse speculations in field of international educational development, and numerous studies have been done in the attempt to unravel the mystery. Missing from the picture however is a more comprehensive, systematic, in-depth, and objective rendition of the policies and practices of Shanghai basic education, benchmarked against others in key dimensions. This report presents an in-depth examination of how Shanghai scored highest in the areas of reading, science, and mathematics on PISA. It documents and benchmarks key policies in basic Shanghai education, provides evidence on the extent to which these policies have been implemented in schools, and explores how these policies have affected learning outcomes. The report uses PISA 2012 data to analyze Shanghai student achievement variation and to examine the extent school variables may be associated with the variation beyond family and student background. It also uses the World Bank's Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER), an existing systems diagnostic and benchmarking tool, as an organizing framework and for data collection. School-based surveys and other existing research shed further light on educational impact and implementation. While the report attempts to adopt a systems approach, particular emphasis is placed on teachers, education financing, balancing autonomy and accountability, and student assessment.
Название: Why Does Development Fail in Resource Rich Economies ISBN: 113889558X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138895584 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a unique attempt to provide a more holistic and interdisciplinary picture of the resource curse and its multi-scale effects. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.
Описание: Sub-Saharan Africa's natural resource-rich countries have poor human development. Children in these countries are more likely to die before their first birthday, more likely to be stunted, and less likely to attend school than children in other countries with similar income. Despite the current price downturn, extractives will remain an important part of Sub-Saharan Africa's growth story--using resource rents wisely remains a long term challenge. Governments must choose how to allocate resource rents between spending, investing in human or physical capital, or investing in global financial assets. The return to investing in physical and human capital will be high in countries where the capital stock is low. Moreover, higher levels of human capital make investments in physical capital more productive, which suggests that the optimal portfolio will involve investing in both. Human capital should be prioritized in many of Sub-Saharan Africa's resource-rich countries because of the low starting point. Investing effectively in human capital is hard because it involves delivering services, which means coordinating a large number of actors and activities. Three dimensions of governance are key: institutions, incentives and information. Decentralization and leveraging the private sector are entry points to reforming institutional structures. Revenues from natural resources can fund financial incentives to strengthen performance or demand. Producing information, making it available, and increasing social accountability helps citizens understand their rights and hold governments and providers accountable. Improving the quality of education and health services is central to improving human capital. Two additional areas are promising. First, early child development--mother and newborn health, and early child nutrition, care, and education--improves outcomes in childhood and later on. Second, cash transfers--either conditional or unconditional--reduce poverty, increase household investments in child education, nutrition, and health, and increase the investment in productive assets which foster further income generation.
Описание: What are effective ways to promote early stage development of wind projects that lead to successful deployment? What constitutes a bankable wind resource assessment? How is wind resource assessment used in financial analysis of a project? For emerging wind markets, what are the best practices for conducting a wind resource assessment? What are the consequences of a poorly executed wind resource assessment? This publication addresses these and other questions with guidelines on policy support for wind resource assessment, wind measurement, wind data processing, wind flow modeling, and estimation of losses and uncertainty. These are challenges faced in these markets by policy makers, implementation agencies, utilities, developers, and financiers.
Автор: Kabanda, Patrick (the World Bank) Название: Creative wealth of nations ISBN: 1108423574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108423571 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15682.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A holistic perspective on development looks beyond the expansion of material means, considering the enrichment of people`s lives. The arts are an indispensable asset in this approach towards the comprehensive improvement of lives. Patrick Kabanda demonstrates how and why applying the arts in development promotes meaningful economic and social progress.
Название: Why REDD will Fail ISBN: 0415729262 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415729260 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8726.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) attempts to address climate change from one angle - by paying developing countries to slow or stop deforestation and forest degradation. Trumpeted as a way to both mitigate climate change and assist countries with development, REDD was presented as a win-win solution. However, there have been few attempts to understand and analyse the overall framework.
Why REDD Will Fail argues that the important goals will not be met under the existing REDD regime unless the actual drivers of deforestation and forest degradation are diminished. The book delves into the problematic details of the regime, ranging from; national capacity to monitor results, the funding mechanism, the definition of a forest, leakage, and the impetus behind the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation. As the international community rallies around REDD and developed countries and companies are willing to commit substantial amounts to implement the scheme, this books seeks to address whether REDD has the potential to achieve its purported goals.
This is an important resource for academics and students interested in the policy and management aspects of mitigating climate change, environmental policy, international relations and development studies as well as policy makers involved in the REDD process.
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