Experiences of project developers around CDM projects in South Africa

Thurner, Thomas Wolfgang; Varughese, Arun

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.013

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“…In addition, numerous researchers have emphasized that CDM projects have impacts on the economic development (Balat, 2009; Cavanagh and Benjaminsen, 2014; Nakicenovic and Swart, 2000), and enhance rural livelihoods (Boyd and Goodman, 2011; Gundimeda, 2004; Lobovikov, 2012; Patel, 2014; Pfaff et al , 2007; Teixeira et al , 2007). The main influencing mechanism includes employment opportunities (Bakker et al , 2011; Dinar et al , 2011; Jindal et al , 2008; Newell, 2012; Thurner and Varughese, 2013), financial public, household income (Balat, 2009; Balat and Ayar, 2005) and investments (Lewis, 2010). They are, however, merely theoretical and have not through the empirical to test this influencing mechanism.…”

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The economic effects of clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation project: evidence from China

Zheng

Zeng

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IJCCSM

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Purpose Forestry carbon sink (FCS) is not only an important measure to deal with the current global climate change but also an effective way to build an ecological civilization. As an important form of implementation of FCS, the afforestation and reforestation projects under the clean development mechanism (CDM A/R) have important functions such as ecological protection and economic growth. This paper aims to evaluate the short-term and long-term impact of CDM on the county economy and its impact mechanism. Design/methodology/approach This paper first uses propensity score matching to match the county (treatment group). Second, this paper uses difference in difference to estimate the net effect of CDM A/R project on county economic development to reduce estimation error. Finally, the impact mechanism of implementing CDM A/R project on county economic development was tested. Findings The CDM A/R project has significantly promoted the development of real gross domestic product (GDP) and per capita real GDP in the region. Because of the long project cycle, this promotion is not immediate in the short term and has an obvious hysteresis effect. The longer the implementation time, the greater the promotion of the local economy will develop. The results are robust after the robustness test that uses the single-difference method. The CDM A/R project has promoted local economic growth by optimizing the local industrial structure, increasing the regional capital stock and raising the regional government’s fiscal revenue and expenditure. Originality/value This paper provides a critical overview of the relationship between clean development mechanism and local economic development.

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The economic effects of clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation project: evidence from China

Zheng

Zeng

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IJCCSM

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“…Scholars have studied projects ranging from, for instance, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), renewable energy, skills development to livelihoods, and concluded that combination of factors underlie projects failure in Africa. For CDM projects (some ongoing with various tenure and success rates) , issues such as priority mismatch (Kim, 2003), lack of finance (Merna & Njiru, 2002;Razavi, 2006;Gantsho & Karani, 2007), long process of project certification (Thurner & Varughese, 2013) have been reported as playing a major role in undermining the success of most of the projects in Africa. For renewable energy projects in Ghana and Nigeria, it has been reported that such projects failed as a result of low acceptance rate by the public which stems from the fact that implementers failed to explain the relevance of the projects to the stakeholders, lack of proper needs assessment, uncooperative attitude of beneficiary communities due to poor planning (Ikejemba et al, 2016).…”

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Exploring the utility of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in ranking livelihood activities for effective and sustainable rural development interventions in developing countries

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2019

Evaluation and Program Planning

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It is commonly known that most development projects, especially in the global south, tend to achieve unintended results or fail because of lack of due diligence. Project satisfaction and sustainability would only be achieved if consistent with the actual needs of the people intended to benefit. Based on field experiences in the Fantekwa District of Eastern Ghana, this study aims to explore the utility of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in prioritizing livelihood activities to aid in effective and sustainable poverty reduction interventions in developing countries. Data from twenty five development stakeholders in the district were used for the assessment. The study demonstrates that with appropriate data, and systematically following all required processes, the AHP approach can effectively show where intervention is most needed. Application of AHP in the current context, the study argues, has the potential to address the issue of wrong development targeting with associated counterproductive and nonstarter outcomes.

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