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    Can a nuclear deal help Iran’s young labor force?

    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2015
    Iran is poised to reap a vast “demographic dividend” if the appropriate national and international policies are adopted, including a nuclear deal with the P5+1 (five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany).
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    The global big oil on the way to business model innovation?

    State University Higher School of Economics,, Russian Federation, 2015
    This paper explores the current changes in the global strategy of the elite of the international oil companies, the so-called supermajors, within the context of the potential business model innovation.
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    MSEs informality and productivity: evidence from Egypt

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This paper assesses the impact of informality on household enterprise performance in terms of productivity and size of output of micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Furthermore, it pinpoints informality determinants with respect to different types of obstacles that impede their growth.
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    Deepening India’s engagement with Africa through better market access

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    In order to provide ‘trade’ stimulus to Least Developed Countries (LDCs), India launched a Duty-Free Tariff Preferences (DFTP) scheme in 2008. DFTP scheme provides duty free treatment to about 98 per cent of tariff lines and 48 LDCs are beneficiary of this scheme. Preliminary evidence indicates the effect of the scheme has been limited and varies from country to country.
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    What role for natural resources in Botswana’s quest for economic diversification?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Botswana is typically perceived as a development anomaly on the continent. With a stable democracy and strong economic growth since 1966, the country’s success is in danger of being taken for granted. Diamond revenues are likely to decline in the near future. The government has historically depended on these, through its partnership with De Beers, to fund its development plans.
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    Technical regulations and trade: implications for regional integration

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015
    Technical regulations lay down compulsory requirements for product or service characteristics or their related processes and production methods. They have specific administrative provisions and conformity assessment requirements with which compliance is mandatory for safety, health, environmental control and consumer protection.
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    Confronting the ‘oil curse’: state–civil society roles in managing Ghana’s oil find

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Ghana discovered large oil deposits at Cape Three Points, on its western coast, in 2007.With the discovery of additional oil it is anticipated that the oil sector will significantly boost the economy, which in turn will have a positive developmental impact.
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    Developing economic corridors in South Asia

    Asian Development Bank, 2015
    Unlike in East and South East Asia, the manufacturing sector has underperformed in South Asia due to various constraints, which, if addressed effectively, can unlock untapped economic potential of the young demographics of South Asia. This is one of the key policy thrusts of the governments in the region.
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    Estimating the income counterfactual for oil producing countries of the MENA region

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    How much richer would oil producing countries in the Middle East be if they invested all their natural resource rents? This study tries to answer this question by calculating the counterfactuals of capital stock and income under two major scenarios.
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    Effects of institutions and natural resources in a multiple growth regime

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    Dependence on natural resourcea is currently the object of a wide debate in the analysis of economic growth in rentier states. In this work, the authors examine the interaction effect between oil resources dependence and the quality of institutions on economic growth by employing a panel threshold regression methodology.

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