Climate change is a challenge for Protected Areas (PA), such as national parks, in many aspects. It can affect biodiversity, infrastructure, and income from tourism. With limited resources, how should
The first EEU Seminar after the winter break will be held on Monday the 27th of January at 12:10 – 13:00 in E45. The seminar will be held by Martin Mattsson and he will be presenting a paper on the…
How can a Just Low Carbon Transition in Sustainable Land Use be achieved? This was the topic at a workshop in Addis Ababa on December 13, 2024. It brought together experts from various government…
A recent study compared how well a private solar mini-grid supplier provides electricity compared to a state-owned electricity company. It showed that the mini-grid outperformed the state-owned…
After three years of implementation, a laser-assisted land leveling project in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam has yielded significant economic and environmental benefits. Initiated and funded by EfD, the
This study investigates the impact of fiscal policy on the informal sector and economic growth in Nigeria. In this study, fiscal policy is unbundled into two distinctive categories: government spending and tax burden. The study adopted the ARDL model and bound cointegration test to ascertain whether there is evidence of long- or short-run equilibrium relationships among the core variables. The results show that government expenditure has a positive and significant effect on the size of Nigeria’s informal sector.
This study investigates the levels and determinants of regional innovation catch-up, frontier shift, and productivity growth of African national innovation systems from 2010 to 2018. The study relied on the World Development Indicators data for 28 African countries. Non-radial non-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and bootstrapped truncated regression were the central estimation methodologies. The results revealed that 18% of Africa’s national innovation systems had experienced progress in the catch-up and frontier shift indexes.
