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087724
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2009.
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THE LARGEST SINGLE PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT in sub-Saharan Africa, the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, attracted worldwide attention not for the size of its oil reserves or the technical complexities of constructing a 1,070-kilometre pipeline from southern Chad to Cameroon's Atlantic coast, but for the elaborate World Bank-sponsored capacity-building initiatives designed to ameliorate the seemingly damaging 'resource curse' effects that oil production has had in other sub-Saharan African countries such as Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, and Sudan.1 The project ran into trouble long before the oil started flowing in 2003 as construction activities rapidly outpaced the institutional capacity-building initiatives designed to ensure that Chad actually used its forthcoming oil revenues for poverty alleviation. Throughout 2005 and 2006, as it dealt with a myriad of domestic and international political crises, the government of Chad also engaged in a series of disputes with both the World Bank and members of the oil consortium (ExxonMobil, Petronas and Chevron) that culminated in the formal ending of the World Bank's role in this project in September 2008.
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109800
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183195
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In COVID-19’s first months, US politicians and media forecast that a contrast between Chinese deception and incapability and Western success against the pandemic might fatally sink internal confidence in China’s party-state. It would also diminish China externally, as it came to be seen as endangering the world by spreading biological pollution. A “China’s Chernobyl” prediction became the latest “China collapse” wish-fulfilment. This rests on two contradictory yet co-existing Yellow Peril tropes: “deceit and incompetence” and “world domination.” However, no empirical basis exists for either notion: China prevailed against the pandemic and lacks the capacity for global hegemony. “China’s Chernobyl” is most relevant then as a wish that creates a belief, that China should and could collapse. That in turn bolsters the US-led mobilization to counter China as a “strong competitor” and frames China as the common enemy, thereby promoting Western transnational and US internal cohesion.
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093543
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2010.
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Imperial collapse may come much more suddenly than many historians imagine. A combination of fiscal deficits and military overstretch suggests that the United States may be the next empire on the precipice.
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150726
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The key objective of this study is the examination of the regulatory and policy framework of the feed-in-tariff (FiT) scheme, specifically its effect on both the electricity pricing as well as the local and European renewable energy sources (RES) market, and accordingly the definition of its feasibility as a scheme for the further development and promotion of renewable energy technologies (RETs). This work discusses the FiT scheme implementation for photovoltaics (PVs) in four case study countries - Denmark, Germany, Cyprus, and Spain. A model describing the conditions under which a FiT scheme is led to collapse is also introduced and a parametric analysis towards revealing the sensitivity of the different parameters affecting it, is delivered. The study concludes with significant policy implications that should be considered for future implementation of the scheme. For the prevention of the collapse of the scheme, the tariff's value ought to be determined by each country's government based on a set of influencing factors including the operational, capital and investment costs of each RET, the standard cost of renewable energy (RE) generation and the avoidance cost, which would be regularly reviewed depending on the excess of the annual capacity.
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144349
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This article focuses on a recent development in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, described by its urban population as a ruralization process. I explore what it means to call something or someone ‘rural’ or ‘urban’, and I compare the social category of ‘rural people’ with the social category of the (old) urban intelligentsia. This includes an analysis and reconsideration of the traditional ‘nature–culture dichotomy’ and its meaning for the architecture and urban planning of Yerevan. It also interrogates the classification of people into newcomers from the countryside, urban dwellers, new elites, and young men called rabiz.
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052864
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.
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92p.
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Adelphi paper; 364
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0198516703
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 048311 | 967.73053/MEN 048311 | Main | Withdrawn | General | |
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120390
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