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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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    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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    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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    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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    The impact of export processing zones on employment, wages and labour conditions in developing countries

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    Export processing zones (EPZs), also called free trade zones, are one of the most common instruments of industrial policy in developed and developing countries. Despite their proliferation and spread across all countries in the world, there is little evidence about the impact that EPZs have on employment and wages.
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    Technology at work: the future of innovation and employment

    Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, 2015
    The 21st century has already brought remarkable technological achievements. The leading corporations of the digital age — including YouTube, Facebook and eBay — barely existed only a decade ago. The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the year Skype was first released. The first iPhone was launched in 2007 and in 2010 Google announced their first fully autonomous car.
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    The impact of high crude oil prices and challenges in pricing of petroleum products

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2006
    India, with its limited domestic crude production, imports more than 70 percent of its crude oil requirement to fuel its burgeoning oil demand in wake of the booming economy. The rise in international crude oil prices directly impacts the cost of refined products.
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    Policy options for agricultural investments and governance of markets: in support of small-scale farmers in Guatemala

    Oxfam, 2014
    Guatemala's farming sector has undergone some major changes over the last 20 years, such as the growth of monocultures and of small-scale farming for export. This trend has been driven by both a general framework of laws offering incentives and international demand, particularly for vegetables, legumes, and substitutes for oil-derived fuels.
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    Unblocking bottlenecks to effective resource revenue management in Peru

    Oxfam America, 2014
    Many developing countries that rely heavily on the extraction of natural resources for revenue do not realise consistent and equitable economic benefits. In Peru, economic growth and exports have risen significantly, and the national rate of poverty has declined. Yet in some regions, including those where mining operations are located, poverty rates are stagnant or increasing.

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