, 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 …

economic green growth while preventing and minimizing negative impacts and risks for human health and the environment; and c …

state of the environment in Ecuador. Rather, its main objective is to provide an analytical foundation to identify the … environment, economic growth, and poverty. The second objective is to guide environmental assistance and capacity building … specific environmental priorities. The main elements of the Country Environment Analysis (CEA) include analyses of: a …

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 …

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 … quick reference for monitoring environmental performance across countries. And it links the environment to the broader …

world's population. Children are especially susceptible to environmental factors that put them at risk of developing illness … inextricably linked, but these links have been forgotten or neglected by policy-makers. The World Health Organization (WHO …