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Inherent conditions leading to economic vulnerability of small states of the pacific region and appropriate policy measures to strengthen their economic resilience for sustainable development, with particular emphasis on Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Institute of National Affairs, 2004Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Human Development Indicators are among the worst in the world and have been declining; it has had three Stuctural Adjustment Programmes between 1990 and 1997.DocumentNORAD annual report 2003: countries
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004This section of Norad’s annual report details the main activities with Norway’s twenty four partner countries. Norway’s main partners include Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Bangladesh and Nepal. Approximately one third of the funds administered by Norad were channelled through various organizations and their partners in Norway’s twenty four target countries.DocumentNorad annual report 2003: selected areas
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004The annual report of Norad describes its efforts in relation to nine of the most important areas of Norwegian development cooperation, including, technical advice on health, economic development and trade, human rights and assistance for indigenous peoples, environment, women and gender equality, infrastructure and energy, education, HIV/AID and good governance.Norad’s development cooperation iDocumentBlackout in energy policy: Brazil’s difficulties in making decisions
Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics, Brazil, 2002This article examines the issues surrounding Brazil’s energy security crisis in 2001 and asks how a legal and political framework can be established with enough credibility to mobilise investment for meeting Brazil’s electricity needs in coming decades.DocumentRural poverty, property rights and environmental resource management in Kenya
International Centre for Theoretical Physics - Ecological and Environmental Economics Programme, 2004This study investigates the relationship between rural poverty, property rights, and environmental resource management in a semi-arid region of Kenya using analysis of survey data. It argues that reduced environmental degradation will increase agricultural productivity, and which will then translate into lower levels of poverty as incomes and consumption expenditures rise.DocumentEnd hunger and malnutrition: the right to food; food sovereignty; food security
Development Fund, Norway, 2003The documents in this booklet outline the policy and viewpoints of the Norwegian Development Fund on the right to food, food security and food sovereignty. The booklet includes two position papers endorsed by the Fund.DocumentGDN Project Country study: Croatia
Global Development Network, 2002This paper assesses the various elements that have both harmed and aided in the growth process of Croatia. Due to its unique hybrid political system of free-market economies and state sanctioned socialism, Croatia was in a favourable position relative to other CEECs before radical transformation as a result of the war during 1991-4.DocumentIndia: economic growth, 1950 – 2000
Global Development Network, 2003This paper explores the factors explaining India’s economic growth performance between1950-2000. The paper compares India’s economic development to a group of developing countries.DocumentExplaining African economic growth performance: the case of Ghana
Global Development Network, 2002With positive economic growth since the mid 1980s, Ghana has regularly been put forward as a showcase of success in Africa. What accounts for this growth? This paper examines Ghana’s growth record and the macroeconomic policies that produced this growth.The authors review Ghana’s economic performance and note that Ghana’s overall growth record has one of unevenness.