This report represents a further chapter in the dialogue between the World Bank and the People's Republic of China …

deaths (premature mortality) are attributable to environmental risks (World Health Organization, or WHO 2006). The burden of … 14, the proportion of deaths attributable to environmental risks, such as poor water and sanitation, indoor air pollution …

, 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 …

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 …

waste generation and its implications on dioxin and furan emissions, approved by the World Bank on April 19, 2011. Burning …

The report synthesizes key findings and recommendations of a study carried out under the World Bank's Advisory Services … Asian countries to achieve sustainable and resilient economic growth. It builds on a previous World Bank report, which … provided the first national-level approximation of primary sources of air pollution in Kazakhstan. This city-level study …

disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone …' approaches and first steps toward closing them. "--World Bank web site …