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    Chinese financed hydropower projects in Sub-Saharan Africa

    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2015
    Hydropower energy has benefits as a renewable and local source of power, but there can be significant social and environmental risks. These risks have made international banks and aid agencies reluctant to finance large hydropower projects in recent decades.
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    World Centre for Sustainable Development / RIO+ Centre

    The World Centre for Sustainable Development (RIO+ Centre) was established as a legacy of the Rio+20 Conference to keep the commitment to inclusive and sustainable development alive.
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    Increased Chinese engagement in South Africa’s economy – strategies, opportunities and future implications

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2015
    China and South Africa’s relationship has deepened in recent years. Extensive political structures, such as South Africa’s Comprehensive Strategic Partnership agreement with China, provide opportunities for bettering local development.
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    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative

    The China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) is based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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    Where next for social protection?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The rapid ascendancy of social protection up the development policy agenda in the past ten to 15 years raises questions about whether its current prominence will be sustained, or whether it will turn out to be just another development fad that declines and ultimately disappears.
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    Commodity price volatility and the sources of growth

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    Countries specialised in the export of just a few primary products are usually exposed to substantial commodity price volatility and suffer from a high degree of macroeconomic instability.
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    Regional patterns of manufacturing industries: a study of manufacturing industries in Java Region, Indonesia

    Philippine Journal of Development, 2010
    Previous studies on geographical distribution of economic activity in Indonesia demonstrate that firms are localized in major metropolitan areas as well as a set of emerging regions.
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    Impact of the rice trade policy reforms on household welfare in the Philippines

    Philippine Journal of Development, 2010
    The effects of rice trade policy reforms on household welfare, as indicated by changes in consumer and producer prices, are analysed in this paper using nonparametric regression and density estimation. Since many households in the Philippines are consumers and producers of rice, the net benefit ratio (NBR) was used to measure the change in household welfare given changes in prices.
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    The Philippine manufacturing industry roadmap: agenda for new industrial policy, high productivity jobs, and inclusive growth

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    In the light of the weak performance of the Philippine manufacturing industry and the absence of structural transformation of the economy from agriculture to manufacturing in the last two decades, the paper calls for the implementation of a new industrial policy.
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    The imprecision of volatility indexes

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    The volatility index (vix) is a measure of market's expectation of volatility. The usefulness of the forward-looking vix, over volatility forecasts based on historical data, has been explored extensively in literature. This has led to applications of vix in areas such as option pricing and value-at-risk calculations.

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