Integrated catchment policies are widely used to manage natural resources in Australian catchments. Decision support tools available to aid integrated catchment management are often limited in their integration of environmental processes with socio-economic systems. Fully integrated models are required to support assessments of the environmental and economic trade-offs of catchment management c...

This paper analyzes the delays and therefore the unpredictability of foreign aid in Africa. As many African countries are dependant to foreign aid, it’s important to understand to what extent aid delays matters for the absorptive capacity and therefore influences aid effectiveness. As the aid literature on absorptive capacity was mainly focused on dutch disease, decreasing returns and instituti...

Foreword This paper draws from a larger study, conducted for the U.S. Agency for International Development's Bureau for Africa, Office of Analysis, Research and Technical Services (AID/AFR/ARTS). The study was funded through a buy-in to the Implementing Policy Cha.ige (IPC) Project, managed by USAID's Research and Development Buieau, Office of Economic and Institutional Development (AID/RD/EID)...