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India : Diagnostic Assessment of Select Environmental Challenges, Volume 3. Valuation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in India
World Bank - 2013
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 …
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Agriculture and the environment : perspectives on sustainable rural development
Lutz, Ernst (contributor) - 1998
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Environmental Health in Nicaragua : Addressing Key Environmental Challenges
World Bank - 2014
to environmental health, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, environmental policy, pollution … outdoor air pollution. The results are striking in that these three risks alone amount to an estimated 2.4 percent of the …
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Environmental Health
World Bank - 2012
and more for some pollution control measures, with most measures costing over US$1,000 per DALY. Infrastructure, energy …
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Environment and Social Policy and Procedures
World Bank - 2015
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Environmental, health, and human ecologic considerations in economic development projects
1974
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Local and community driven development : moving to scale in theory and practice
Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P. (contributor);  … - 2010
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Auctions with endogenous participation and quality thresholds : evidence from oda infrastructure procurement
Estache, Antonio - 2009
"Infrastructure projects are often technically complicated and highly customized. Therefore, procurement competition tends to be limited. Competition is the single most important factor toward auction efficiency and anti-corruption. However, the degree of competition realized is closely related...
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Energy demand models for policy formulation : a comparative study of energy demand models
Bhattacharyya, Subhes C. - 2009
"This paper critically reviews existing energy demand forecasting methodologies highlighting the methodological diversities and developments over the past four decades in order to investigate whether the existing energy demand models are appropriate for capturing the specific features of...
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On the financial sustainability of earnings-related pension schemes with "pay-as-you-go" financing and the role of government indexed bonds
Robalino, David A. - 2006
"In this paper the authors reconsider the idea of an earnings-related pension system with reserves invested in indexed government bonds as a mechanism to both ensure financial sustainability and improve security. They start by reviewing the characterization of the sustainable rate of return of...
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