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Chinese overseas development funds: An assessment of their sustainability approaches
Journal of International Development, Volume 35, Issue 8, Page 2373-2396, November 2023., 2023 Abstract A growing number of emerging economies receive significant parts of their overseas finance and investment from Chinese state‐owned or state‐linked institutions. While academic research has focused on how Chinese policy and state‐owned banks approach sustainable development issues, Chinese sovereign‐backed overseas development funds are a ...
Mathias Lund Larsen +2 more
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How transparent are aid agencies to their citizens? Introducing the Citizen Aid Transparency Dataset
Journal of International Development, Volume 35, Issue 7, Page 2177-2212, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Existing measures of aid transparency overwhelmingly focus on how much information donor agencies are willing to share with the international donor community, overlooking that transparency is about increasing citizens' access to information in order to improve government accountability.
Bernhard Reinsberg, Haley Swedlund
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Local Currency Bond Markets in Africa: Resilience and Subordination
Development and Change, Volume 54, Issue 5, Page 1031-1064, September 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article examines the development and implications of local currency bond markets (LCBMs) in African countries in the context of international financial subordination (IFS). Despite the promotion of LCBMs as a solution to debt vulnerability, there is a dearth of research that offers a systematic empirical examination of their actual ...
Florence Dafe +3 more
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Hydrogen: Fueling EU‐Morocco Energy Cooperation?
Middle East Policy, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 37-52, Autumn (Fall) 2023., 2023 Abstract The war in Ukraine and the looming threat of climate change are driving the strategic need to diversify sources of energy, including renewables. Therefore, the European Union aims to develop energy relations with non‐EU member states, and Morocco has become a key priority.
Friedrich Plank +6 more
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HUGO BALL'S RELIGIOUS CONVERSION
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 376-391, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This essay investigates the German ex‐Dadaist Hugo Ball (1886–1927) and his 1920s work on religious conversion from Paul, Augustine and Francis to writers and poets in modernity. This intense engagement was rooted in Ball's own radical conversion, or ‘re‐conversion’, to an austere form of the Catholicism of his childhood in 1920, just a few ...
Deborah Lewer
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Catalytic Power Europe: Blended Finance in European External Action
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 61, Issue 4, Page 988-1006, July 2023., 2023 Abstract The global influence of the European Union (EU) has been debated in overlapping strands of literature as ‘normative’, ‘regulatory’ and ‘market power’. They identify the diffusion of its rules and standards as a vehicle of European power.
Andrea Prontera, Rainer Quitzow
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Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, Volume 31, Issue 6, Page 591-597, June 2023., 2023 A simple method to calculate the aerosol content in the atmosphere and the prevailing spectral irradiance of the sunlight is introduced. A weather station and a pyrheliometer are sufficient for the determination of the prevailing spectral irradiance using this method.
Marc Steiner +4 more
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Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2014 When flood events trigger disaster in cities, the recovery process constitutes a complex field of activity covering urban space, state institutions, and impacted citizens. Recovery may not occur evenly, but instead, asymmetrically.
Mark Kammerbauer
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Biuletyn Polskiej Misji Historycznej, 2012 “Adequate balance between the necessary, the attainable and the desirable”. The reconstruction in Frankfurt am Main in the years 1945–1955 In March 1944 Frankfurt am Main was destroyed by British bombing raids.
Marco Rasch
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development and importance for its agents [PDF]
, 2012 Der Kampf der Organisationen der Indigenenbewegung in Ecuador seit den 1980ern war nicht nur ein Kampf für gleiche wirtschaftliche, politische oder kulturelle Rechte, sondern auch einer für einen Wiederaufbau der ecuadorianischen Gesellschaft und des ...
Altmann, Philipp
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