Book abstract: Volatility in commodity prices has been accompanied by perpetual renegotiation of contracts between private investors in natural resource production and the governments of states with m
The 2009 conference, jointly hosted by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the Australian National University, considered the substantial rise in global
This paper asks how strong African Public Financial Management (PFM) has become, after a decade and more of reform.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown promotes it as a vehicle for creating high-skill jobs.
Lanterns that use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) powered by batteries, which are in turn charged by grid electricity or small solar panels, have emerged as a cost-competitive alternative to kerosene and
It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to grow more rapidly than those without. This is the phenomenon known as the Natural Resource Curse.
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