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East Mediterranean Gas: What Kind of Game Changer? (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
El-Katiri, L., Fattouh, B., & Darbouche, H. East Mediterranean Gas: What Kind of Game Changer?. Oxford

The discovery of sizable gas resources in the Levant Basin, a geological structure that straddles the territorial waters of Cyprus, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, and Syria, has the potential to be game-changing for the East Mediterran... Read More about East Mediterranean Gas: What Kind of Game Changer?.

Macroeconomic Impact of Capital Flows in Sub-Saharan Countries, 1980-2008 : Working Paper no. 290 (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
Weeks, J. Macroeconomic Impact of Capital Flows in Sub-Saharan Countries, 1980-2008 : Working Paper no. 290. Amherst

Weeks examines the probable impact of capital flows, including capital flight, on the macroeconomic performance of sub-Saharan countries over several decades leading up to the global financial crisis. He uses empirical evidence from 31 countries (fro... Read More about Macroeconomic Impact of Capital Flows in Sub-Saharan Countries, 1980-2008 : Working Paper no. 290.

Askese und Devotion: Das rituelle System der Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jains (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
Flügel, P. Askese und Devotion: Das rituelle System der Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jains. London

Historical-philological investigations of Jaina scriptures have a more than two hundred year history. Yet, even today not much is known about the lifestyle of the Jainas or Jains. Since almost two thousand years Jinism or Jainism is split into the tw... Read More about Askese und Devotion: Das rituelle System der Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jains.

Biodiversity change and livelihood responses: ecosystem asset functions in southern India (2012)
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Kent, R., & Dorward, A. Biodiversity change and livelihood responses: ecosystem asset functions in southern India. London

We investigate the livelihood responses of two ethnic communities in a village in southern India to changes in biodiversity arising from the invasion of forest by Lantana camara. The invasion of forest by Lantana has led to changes in the attributes... Read More about Biodiversity change and livelihood responses: ecosystem asset functions in southern India.

Conceptualizing assets and asset services in livelihoods and ecosystem analyses for poverty reduction (2012)
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Kent, R., & Dorward, A. Conceptualizing assets and asset services in livelihoods and ecosystem analyses for poverty reduction

Household assets are increasingly seen as critical in poverty dynamics, both for reducing vulnerability and escaping poverty. Asset based approaches have thus become central to poverty analysis and development policy. In this paper we contend that fo... Read More about Conceptualizing assets and asset services in livelihoods and ecosystem analyses for poverty reduction.

Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny? Reflection about the Potentials and Limits of the Concept of Resilience in Relation to Vulnerability Reduction Programmes (2012)
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Béné, C., Godfrey-Wood, R., Newsham, A., & Davies, M. Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny? Reflection about the Potentials and Limits of the Concept of Resilience in Relation to Vulnerability Reduction Programmes. Brighton

Resilience is becoming influential in development and vulnerability reduction sectors such as social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Policy makers, donors and international development agencies are now increasingly... Read More about Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny? Reflection about the Potentials and Limits of the Concept of Resilience in Relation to Vulnerability Reduction Programmes.

Modelling the impact of aggregate financial shocks external to the Chinese economy (2012)
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Qin, D., & He, X. Modelling the impact of aggregate financial shocks external to the Chinese economy. Helsinki

Ways of extracting financial condition indices (FCI) are explored and alternative FCIs external to the Chinese economy are constructed to model their predictive content. The exploration aims at highlighting the rich and varied dynamic features of fin... Read More about Modelling the impact of aggregate financial shocks external to the Chinese economy.