Essays about: "economics of developing countries"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 273 essays containing the words economics of developing countries.
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21. Social Capability and Resilience to Economic Shrinking - An innovative Perspective on Growth and the Income Divergence between Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia & Pacific
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Since the beginning of the 1960’s, there has been a widening gap in GDP per capita between the countries in the regions of East Asia & Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa. By growing more and shrinking less, some but not all, developing countries have deviated from a state of underdevelopment and caught up with the developed world. READ MORE
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22. Is there a trade-off between poverty reduction and climate action? : A glance at the determinants of official development assistance in environmentally relevant sectors
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : In a time where environmental issues are increasingly important and measures are being taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conserve biodiversity, aid that targets sectors relevant for these issues are important to examine. The world is simultaneously taking measures needed to increase economic development around the world, by allocating aid to developing countries. READ MORE
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23. Aid in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Aid initiatives are both praised for positive outcomes and criticized for their apparent lack of effectiveness in stimulating economic growth. Under post-conflict conditions, official development assistance (ODA) is often given by donor states to improve the welfare of developing countries. READ MORE
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24. Closing the Plastic Tap — Global Plastic Waste and the Circular Economy. A Multi-Regional Hybrid Input-Output Analysis of Plastic Waste Footprints
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Plastic pollution is a cross-national environmental and societal challenge that needs to be addressed from the point of view of global supply chains. The circular economy (CE) has emerged as an alternative paradigm to the traditional “take-make-waste” models of production and consumption to create a closed-loop system so that plastic is trapped in the economy and not in the environment. READ MORE
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25. Foreign Direct Investment and Welfare: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is often considered to be favorable to long-run economic growth and has in recent years been promoted as a poverty-reducing tool. Although FDI to developing countries has increased rapidly in recent decades, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been unsuccessful in attracting large inflows of FDI. READ MORE
