Korea's experience with outward foreign direct investment (FDI) demonstrates that the ancillary benefits of such investment -- knowledge and management transfer, market acquisition and skills enhancement -- can be substantial for individual firms. Moreover, the resulting increased robustness of...

The European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) struggle with environmental challenges related to the consumption and end-of-life management of many harmful products. This policy manual considers the potential use and...

Productivity is commonly defined as a ratio between the volume of output and the volume of inputs. In other words, it measures how efficiently production inputs, such as labour and capital, are being used in an economy to produce a given level of output. Broadly, productivity measures can be...

Infrastructure investment has been at the forefront of the political debate for more than two decades. Despite decades of theoretical study and experimentation in practice, “how to” actually procure infrastructure still lacks a complete and evidence-based guide, relying heavily on subjective...

This dataset presents baseline and policy scenario projections for plastic leakage to aquatic environments, at the global level for the 2019-2060 period. The dataset provides projections for accumulated stocks both in oceans and in rivers and lakes, as well as leakage to water from mismanaged...

This dataset presents baseline and policy scenario projections for plastic leakage to the environment, at the global level for the 2019-2060 period. The dataset provides projections for microplastics, macroplastics and the total leakage.