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Biosafety Regulation : A Review of International Approaches
World Bank - 2013
The focus of this report is crop biotechnology, as developing countries are faced with evaluating genetically engineered plants for human, livestock, and environmental safety. These genetically engineered plants can potentially contribute to agricultural productivity in developing regions when...
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Environmental Valuation and Greening the National Accounts : Challenges and Initial Practical Steps
World Bank - 2013
The national accounts are the single most important source of information about the economy, and are widely used in all countries to assess economic performance and for policy analysis. However, the national accounts have a number of well-known shortcomings when it comes to treatment of the...
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Warming Up to Trade? Harnessing International Trade to Support Climate Change Objectives
World Bank - 2012
This study on harnessing international trade to support climate change objectives assesses the following: 1) What are the main policy prescriptions for reducing greenhouse gases that are employed by OECD countries and how do they impact the competitiveness of their energy-intensive industries?...
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Exchange Rate Risk : Reviewing the Record for Private Infrastructure Contracts
World Bank - 2012
Among the key risks facing foreign private entities investing in the infrastructure of developing countries is depreciation or devaluation of the local currency. Indeed, over the past 25 years developing country currencies lost 72 percent of their value relative to the U.S. dollar on average-and...
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Unsolicited Proposals : Competitive Solutions for Private Infrastructure
World Bank - 2012
This Note looks at systems some governments have used to transform unsolicited proposals for private infrastructure projects into competitively tendered projects. It focuses on the policies that Chile, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and South Africa have adopted for managing such...
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Clusters of competitiveness
Nallari, Raj - 2013
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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2004, Europe : Economic Integration and Social Responsibility
2007
's Agence française de développement (AfD), the Conseil d'Analyse économique (CAE), and the World Bank. The theme of the … roles and responsibilities of the private sector. The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) provides … a forum for the world's leading development thinkers to share new knowledge and ideas. In 1999, in recognition of Europe …
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Did growth become less pro-poor in the 1990s ?
Lopez, J. Humberto - 2006
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Trading on time
Djankov, Simeon - 2006
"The authors determine how time delays affect international trade using newly collected World Bank data on the days it …-sensitive to time-insensitive agricultural goods by 6 percent. "--World Bank web site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522152
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Global income inequality : what it is and why it matters
Milanovic, Branko - 2006
inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …. And it shows why global inequality matters and proposes a scheme for global redistribution. "--World Bank web site …
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