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. Focusing on pro-poor growth and income poverty, Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Policy Guidance for Donors identifies binding … private sector development, agriculture and infrastructure in pro-poor growth – areas that were neglected by many donors … methodology for conducting ex-ante poverty impact assessment, a valuable tool for those whose aim is to maximise the poverty …
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This publication demonstrates that natural resources can contribute to growth, employment, exports and fiscal revenues in low-income countries, where natural capital constitutes a quarter of total wealth. It highlights the importance of policies encouraging the sustainable management of these...
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Trade promotes economic growth, alleviates poverty and helps countries reach their development goals. However … economic growth. The Aid for Trade Initiative – launched at the 2005 World Trade Organisation conference in Hong Kong – aims at … helping these countries to take advantage of trade opportunities and to reap the benefits of their integration into the world …
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civil society organisations, are focusing as never before on the development priority of reducing poverty by half by 2015 …. Country-led and country-owned poverty reduction strategies focusing on local needs and priorities as determined by … stakeholders are now the focus of all development assistance efforts. The DAC Guidelines on Poverty Reduction provide practical …
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advantage of EFR approaches in both their development and poverty reduction strategies. Following a review of the instruments of … EFR and related technical issues, Environmental Fiscal Reform for Poverty Reduction focuses on the political economy and …
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The implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and the application of its "flexible mechanisms" are at the forefront of energy policy debates in most OECD countries. The potential role of nuclear energy in this context is viewed very differently and assessed against various criteria by the range of...
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Climate change is a fact of life. We need to act urgently if we are to avoid an irreversible build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and global warming at a potentially huge cost to the economy and society worldwide. OECD analysis suggests that if we act now, we have 10 to 15 years’ “breathing...
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