, and the Global Environment Facility--is part of a larger effort in the Bank to understand governance and pollution"--World …"New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle …

that this effect can be offset by having a large level of human capital. They test their model using panel data for the … Caribbean Region"--World Bank web site …

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 …

This report examines the implications of spatial heterogeneity - the uneven distribution of poverty, growth, and …

that the World Bank could play in helping the Government of Ecuador (GOE) strengthen its institutional capacity in order to …

's accounts in relation to the rest of the world. Problems in the balance sheet either cause a financial crisis that develops into … probability of a crisis are of the expected sign. The panel data set covers the time period 1973 through 2003 for 90 countries …. "--World Bank web site …

essential. "--World Bank web site …

Based on the World Bank's World Development Indicators and the Little Green Data Book, the Green miniAtlas complements … the miniAtlas of Global Development previously published by the World Bank. The information in the Green miniAtlas is a …

to increase by 0.11 percentage point. This paper a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World Bank … Institute, is part of a larger effort in the Institute to assess the effects of knowledge on economic development"--World Bank …