Project
Development in an urban world
Theme: 2008-09
In 2007 the number of urban inhabitants will surpass rural dwellers as a percentage of the total world population. By 2030 the proportion of people living in cities globally is expected to reach 61%, with almost 80% of urban dwellers living in less...
Blog
Rethinking African debt and exploitation of natural resources
by
Michael Danquah, Albert Kwame Osei-Owusu, Edgar Towa
March 2023
In Africa, there is a distressing correlation between debt and the need to export raw materials. A new paradigm is needed in which African countries...
Working Paper
Unravelling Africa’s raw material footprints and their drivers
This paper applies an environmentally extended input–output analysis, leveraging the Eora database, to estimate the global raw material footprints of 51 African nations from 1995 to 2015. It employs least absolute shrinkage and selection operator and...
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