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    Energy, jobs and skills: a rapid assessment of potential in Mtwara, Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2009
    Energy development in Mtwara is a fundamental part of the overall national energy strategy which is based on the desire to move away from hydro-dependent power sources, and the opportunity to achieve this through the development of natural gas for energy development. Therefore, for the purpose of this study, energy focuses specifically on electricity and natural gas.
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    Global crisis, environmental volatility and expansion of the Indian leather industry

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    The leather industry occupies a place of prominence in the Indian economy in view of its massive potential for employment, growth and exports. However, the on-going global economic slowdown and the wide erratic behaviour of the overall weather condition particularly in the Europe pose both threat (of market loss) and opportunity (to gain some unanticipated demand in the market) before it.
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    Mineral rights, rents and resources in South Africa’s development narrative

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    South Africa is endowed with substantial subsoil mineral wealth, yet the development promise typically associated with this wealth has not been realised. Between 2001 and 2008 the South African mining industry contracted at a rate of 1% a year, while comparable mining jurisdictions grew at an average of 5% a year.1 This period marked the longest commodity price boom in recent history.
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    Building resilience of SIDS through agricultural trade and agribusiness development

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2014
    Small islands face a greater risk of marginalisation due to the combined adverse consequences of their small size, remoteness from large markets and high economic vulnerability to economic and natural shocks beyond domestic control. This reader gives an overview of the main challenges and opportunities for agribusiness development in SIDS.
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    Fossil fuels are dead, long live fossil fuels: Botswana’s options for economic diversification

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Botswana is at a critical historical juncture. It has enjoyed a stable democracy since 1965 and strong, quality economic growth for the last few decades. However, the diamond revenues on which the country depends are likely to decline in the near future. Economic diversification is therefore a pressing policy concern.
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    How should Uganda grow?

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    Income per capita in Uganda has doubled in the last 20 years. However, economic growth has been concentrated in non-tradable activities and faces challenges, including rapid rural population growth, high dependency ratios and an approaching oil boom of uncertain size and duration.
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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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    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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