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India : Unlocking Opportunities for Forest-Dependent People in India, Volume 2, Appendixes
World Bank - 2012
This study by the World Bank indicates that forests offer vast potential for poverty reduction and rural economic growth in India while also supporting critical national conservation goals. An estimated 275 million people in rural areas depend on forests for at least part of their livelihoods....
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Toward a Low-Carbon Economy : Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Review
World Bank - 2014
Renewable energy and energy efficiency projects continue to perform strongly in the World Bank Group (WBG) energy portfolio and are increasingly being mainstreamed in the WBG's energy lending. In fiscal 2007 a total of US$1,433 million supported 63 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects...
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China's Envisaged Renewable Energy Target : The Green Leap Forward
World Bank - 2010
This policy note is a summary of the findings of a joint study of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, and the World Bank. The policy note is organized as follows: the next section, 'in the shadow of king coal,' provides a brief history of the...
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Towards a Sustainable Energy Future : The World Bank Group's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Action Plan
World Bank - 2013
The challenge for the development community is to exploit the links between energy and poverty to combat global poverty. The human scale of this challenge is huge. Today, 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and 2.4 billion rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating. Indoor air...
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Testing genuine saving
Hamilton, Kirk - 2005
"The World Bank has been publishing estimates of adjusted net or "genuine" saving since 1999. This measure of saving treats depletion of natural resources as a type of economic depreciation. Hamilton uses recent theoretical results relating growth in saving to growth in future consumption to...
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Saving Fish and Fisheries : Towards Sustainable and Equitable Governance of the Global Fishing Sector
World Bank - 2013
This Fisheries Sector Approach Paper has been written in recognition of the mounting challenges that the World Bank and the developing world face in meeting the fishery sector-related Millennium Development Goals and the outcomes of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. It augments...
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Turkey - Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) : Sustaining High Growth - The Role of Domestic savings : Synthesis Report
World Bank - 2013
Domestic savings in Turkey declined significantly in the 2000s. The domestic savings rate declined from an average of … most of the period. A strong fiscal adjustment underpinned the improvement in public savings in the post-2001 period. The … will be vital for sustainable growth. The fall in private savings after 2001 was mostly a result of the decline in …
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Wealth : crucial but not sufficient evidence from Pakistan on economic growth, child labor, and schooling
Hou, Xiaohui - 2009
"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time …-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth … enrollment for rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure …
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Unleashing the potential of renewable energy in India
Sargsyan, Gevorg (contributor) - 2011
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