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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2023-11-04
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9264546219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The report explores the national regulatory framework encapsulated in national investment laws and how this compares with initiatives at a regional level, investment promotion and facilitation in SADC, investment incentives, investment for green growth and responsible business conduct.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2024-01-24
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9264594884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report serves as a baseline diagnostic to explore ways to reinvigorate the reform of the ECOWAS investment climate while also improving sustainable outcomes from investment. It also highlights areas where further collaboration between ECOWAS and the OECD could contribute to improved investment climates throughout the region.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9264473041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Middle East and North Africa Investment Policy Perspectives highlights the considerable progress in investment policies made by the region’s governments over the past decade. Yet, the reform momentum needs to be sustained and deepened for the benefits of investment to be shared with society at large and for growth to be sustainable, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting global economic upheaval.
Author: African Union Commission
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2023-07-07
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9264417591
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons from Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa to develop policy recommendations and share good practices across the continent. Drawing on the most recent statistics, the analysis of development dynamics aims to assist African leaders in reaching the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.
Author: Cosimo Beverelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1108840884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A multi-disciplinary investigation of how economic globalization can help achieve the UN's 2030 Agenda, exploring trade-offs among the Goals.
Author: P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 155250204X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2006-05-11
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9264018476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on good practices from OECD and non-OECD countries, the Framework proposes a set of questions for governments to consider in ten policy fields as critically important for the quality of a country’s environment for investment.
Author: Shawkat Alam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-17
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 1107055695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Situating the global poverty divide as an outgrowth of European imperialism, this book investigates current global divisions on environmental policy.
Author: Hettie Carina Schönfeldt
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2024-05-06
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 2832548830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Africa is confronted with the triple burden of malnutrition; it is also faced with the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. In many African countries, large proportions of the population rely on agriculture not only for their food - but also for their livelihoods. A transformed agricultural and food system is thus a necessary condition for addressing this double-triple challenge. Additionally, post harvest and food waste and losses reduce the availability of sufficient quantities of safe, edible and preferable foods. At least one third of food produced at farm level is lost due to inappropriate storage, infrastructure and agro-processing technologies in developing countries; and one third of food purchased is wasted at household and retail level.
Author: Emily Ying Yang Chan
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 303936314X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Disasters such as earthquakes, cyclones, floods, heat waves, nuclear accidents, and large scale pollution incidents take lives and cause exceptionally large health problems. The majority of large-scale disasters affect the most vulnerable populations, which are often comprised of people of extreme ages, in remote living areas, with endemic poverty, and with low literacy. Health-related emergency disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) [1] refers to the systematic analysis and management of health risks surrounding emergencies and disasters; it plays an important role in reducing hazards and vulnerability along with extending preparedness, response, and recovery measures. This concept encompasses risk analyses and interventions, such as accessible early warning systems, timely deployment of relief workers, and the provision of suitable drugs and medical equipment, to decrease the impact of disaster on people before, during, and after disaster events. Disaster risk profiling and interventions can be at the personal/household, community, and system/political levels; they can be targeted at specific health risks including respiratory issues caused by indoor burning, re-emergence of infectious disease due to low vaccination coverage, and gastrointestinal problems resulting from unregulated waste management. Unfortunately, there has been a major gap in the scientific literature regarding Health-EDRM. The aim of this Special Issue of IJERPH was to present papers describing/reporting the latest disaster and health risk analyses, as well as interventions for health-related disaster risk management, in an effort to address this gap and facilitate major global policies and initiatives for disaster risk reduction.
