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India : Diagnostic Assessment of Select Environmental Challenges, Volume 2. Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability, What Are the Tradeoffs?
World Bank - 2013
This report provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … damage categories: (i) urban air pollution, including particulate matter and lead; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor … sanitation, and hygiene; (iii) indoor air pollution; and four natural resource damage categories: (a) agricultural damage from …
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Republic of Ecuador Country Environmental Analysis : Environmental Quality and Natural Resource Management for Sustained Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation
World Bank - 2013
Ecuador is a country with exceptional natural resource and environmental advantages and challenges. It is strategically located and has considerable oil reserves in the interior and the coastal region. This document does not aim to describe the state of the environment in Ecuador. Rather, its...
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A selection of environmental pressure indicators for the EU and acceding countries
2003
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India : Diagnostic Assessment of Select Environmental Challenges, Volume 1. An Analysis of Physical and Monetary Losses of Environmental Health and Natural Resources
World Bank - 2013
This report provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … damage categories: (i) urban air pollution, including particulate matter and lead; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor … sanitation, and hygiene; (iii) indoor air pollution; and four natural resource damage categories: (a) agricultural damage from …
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Reducing the Footprint of Growth
World Bank - 2014
Reducing the footprint of growth requires a focus on three key issues: a) transforming urban areas into greener, more efficient, resilient, and socially inclusive cities, better able to capture the economic benefits associated with urbanization; b) ensuring sound management of the brown...
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Poverty, Growth, and Environment in Brazil : Spatial Insights for Policymaking
World Bank - 2013
This report examines the implications of spatial heterogeneity - the uneven distribution of poverty, growth, and environmental assets - for policy. Its goal is to inform a wide set of policies that are either explicitly spatially targeted or may have unanticipated spatial implications. These...
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Upstream Reduction of Solid Waste Generation : Implications on Dioxin and Furan Emission
World Bank - 2013
Environmental Resources Management-PR, Inc presents this report entitled 'upstream reduction of solid waste generation and its implications on dioxin and furan emissions' as part of the project phase two study upstream reduction of solid waste generation and its implications on dioxin and furan...
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Turkey - Country Economic Memorandum : Volume 2. Sustaining High Growth, Selected Issues
World Bank - 2012
This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM), prepared in collaboration with the Turkish authorities, summarizes recent accomplishments in achieving high growth and analyzes remaining public policy challenges and options available to the authorities to meet these challenges. The country seeks to...
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Afghanistan : State Building, Sustaining Growth, and Reducing Poverty
World Bank - 2012
Afghanistan has come a long way since emerging from major conflict in late 2001. Important political milestones mandated by the Bonn Agreement (two Loya Jirgas, a new Constitution, recently the Presidential election) have been achieved. The economy has recovered strongly, growing by nearly 50...
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The Road to Sustained Growth in Jamaica
World Bank - 2013
Jamaica's economic history is one of paradoxes, and potential - it has an English-speaking, and reasonably well-educated labor force, is close to the world's largest market, the United States, and, has an abundance of natural beauty, which has spurred tourism - and, many of its social, and...
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