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Beyond mitigation : potential options for counter-balancing the climatic and environmental consequences of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases
MacCracken, Michael C. - 2009
"Global climate change is occurring at an accelerating pace, and the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are forcing climate change continue to increase. Given the present pace of international actions, it seems unlikely that atmospheric composition can be stabilized at a level that will...
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From Remittances to M-Payments
World Bank - 2012
-income countries, with cash continuing to be the most widely used instrument for small-value payments. A number of issues are …
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Retail Payment Costs and Savings in Kosovo
Central Bank of Kosovo (CBK); World Bank - 2022
This report is based on a study of the costs of retail payments in Kosovo, using a methodology (A Practical Guide for Measuring Retail Payment Costs) developed by the World Bank's Payment System Development Group (PSDG), part of the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice. The...
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Central Bank Digital Currency : A Payments Perspective
World Bank - 2021
Payment and settlement systems and services have become vital components of the economic life of contemporary societies. Over the last decades, they have gone through several waves of reforms that have changed the landscape of the national payments system (NPS) in virtually every country in the...
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Payments and Securities Settlement Systems in Pakistan
World Bank - 2010
The South Asia Payments and Securities Settlement Initiative (SAPI) objective is to describe and assess the payments and securities settlement systems of the countries of South Asia with a view to identifying possible improvement measures in their safety, efficiency and integrity. To assure...
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Payment Systems Worldwide - A Snapshot : Outcomes of the Global Payment Systems Survey 2010
World Bank - 2013
Global survey outcomes presented in this publication are divided into two main sections: Chapters I through VIII analyze the survey results and identify trends using various variable for cross-country comparisons. In addition to worldwide totals, three broad country characteristics exogenous to...
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Payments and Securities Clearance and Settlement Systems in Bolivia
World Bank - 2013
This report covers the Western Hemisphere payments and securities settlement forum center for Latin American monetary studies and focuses on several issues. The first section covers economic and financial markets overview of Belarus. This section covers the financial sector, capital markets, and...
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Trade liberalization and the environment in Vietnam
Jha, Shreyasi - 2006
and export activity in water and toxic pollution-intensive sectors compared with the less pollution-intensive sectors. The … traditional sectors and toward pollution-intensive manufacturing (especially leather and textiles). The paper also highlights the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522181
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Health effects and pesticide perception as determinants of pesticide use : evidence from bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2005
"In a recent survey of 820 Boro (winter rice), potato, bean, eggplant, cabbage, sugarcane, and mango farmers in Bangladesh, over 47 percent of farmers were found to be overusing pesticides. With only 4 percent of farmers formally trained in pesticide use or handling, and over 87 percent openly...
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Air pollution during growth : accounting for governance and vulnerability
Hamilton, Kirk - 2004
"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 … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522951