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This report evaluates strategies to improve the efficiency with which environmental resources are used to meet human … energy efficiency in the region of 10% to 40%. The full potential for improving eco-efficiency is much greater, but it is …
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The dramatic collapse in world trade in 2009 is, this report shows, mainly due to: the drop in demand for highly traded … tariff revenues results in a USD 2.16 drop in world exports and a USD 0.73 drop in world income. The analyses presented here …
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The financial crisis required governments to make massive interventions in their financial systems. This book sets out priorities for reforming incentives in financial markets as well as for phasing out these emergency measures.
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With all the economic turmoil of the past several years, have you ever wished you could buy an insurance policy to protect against the effects of a global recession? Well, such an insurance policy already exists – and it’s called higher education. During the first two years of the global...
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This book explores the international aspects of pension reform, private savings and volatile capital markets and clarifies how they relate to each other. Building the case for the pension-improving benefits of global asset diversification, analysing the implications of financial reform for...
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In the second half of 1997 Thailand, Malaysia, Korea and Indonesia experienced a massive outflow of foreign capital - more than $100 billion. The effects of this rival the worst years of the Latin American debt crisis and the early years of the Great Depression. The Asian crisis demonstrates how...
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The financial and economic crisis had a devastating impact on bank profits, with loss-making banks reporting global … commercial losses of around USD 400 billion in 2008. This comprehensive report sets the market context for bank losses and … to bank losses from the perspective of both banks and revenue bodies; outlines the incentives that give rise to those …
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