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Role of Islamic Capital Market Instruments in Sustainable Development

Islamic capital markets have demonstrated unprecedented success in generating finance for corporate and public sectors. Sukuk (Islamic bonds) have been a particularly important Islamic capital market…

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Is UBI a good idea?

One of the key policy areas that people are debating now, especially in light of the pandemic, is whether it is a good idea to introduce universal basic incomes. In particular, the pandemic rekindled…

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Cash transfers for poverty alleviation

What if making people less poor was as simple as just making them less poor, with money? Learn about NGOs that are sending money to people living in poverty around the world, no strings attached.…

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Fiscal policy, inequality and poverty in low and middle income countries

What is fiscal policy? Fiscal policy describes changes to government spending and revenue behavior in an effort to influence the economy. By adjusting its level of spending and tax revenue, the…

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Q&A | Andrew Bauer | 2017 Apr. 12

Andrew Bauer from the Natural Resource Governance Institute answers questions about revenue management and sovereign wealth funds. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Q&A | Lise Johnson | 2017 Mar. 9

Lise Johnson, Head of Investment Law and Policy at the Columbia Center of Sustainable Investment, answers questions on international legal frameworks and their impact on investments in extractive…

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Q&A | Perrine Toledano | 2016 Oct. 13

Perrine Toledano from the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment answers questions on the effect of quantity of minerals in the ground on prices, the challenges faced by oil and gas producing…

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Q&A | Thomas Lassourd | 2016 Oct. 11

Thomas Lassourd, a senior economist with the Natural Resource Governance Institute, answers questions on fiscal regimes around extractive industries. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA…

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Fiscal Regime Implementation

In this chapter, Matthew Genasci discusses contract-based systems, including both production sharing arrangements and service contracts, in comparison to royalty tax systems. He explains service…

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Fiscal Instruments I: Royalty Tax Systems

The three categories of royalty tax regime charges are fixed fees, per-unit charges, and shares of measured profits. Fixed fees are not dependent on other factors, while the others are. These charge…

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Fiscal Institutions and Policies

In this chapter, Professor Larraín discusses fiscal policy and fiscal institutions, and there is a cyclical pattern of the fiscal deficit. Output fluctuations have important on the level of…

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The Budget, Public Revenues and Expenditures

This chapter discusses fiscal policy and institutions, beginning with a focus on the Maastricht Treaty, and goes on to explain fiscal balance, with a discussion of aging populations and unemployment.…

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Renewable and Nonrenewable Sources of Energy

This chapter introduces the indispensable roles that renewable and nonrenewable resources could play in the post-conflict recovery phase, including how to make recovery more resilient. It highlights…

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Macroeconomics for a Sustainable Planet - Trailer

Unemployment. Inflation. Protectionism. Trade barriers. Fiscal deficit. These are not just terms in an economics textbook or in newspaper headlines. These real-life challenges carry societal and…

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