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The Development, Climate, and Nature Crisis : Solutions to End Poverty on a Livable Planet - Insights from World Bank Country Climate and Development Reports covering 42 economies
World Bank Group - 2023
The world faces a triple crisis of three interconnected issues-development, climate, and nature- and current levels of … World Bank launched the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) in 2022. This core diagnostic tool aims to help … global climate change challenge. The first set of CCDRs covered only 10 percent of the world's tropical forests, but the …
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Sustainable Urban Transport for Kyiv : Towards a Sustainable and Competitive City Built Upon the Legacy System and Innovations
World Bank Group - 2016
This report presents the scope and findings of the Economic Sector Work on Sustainable Urban Transport for the City of Kyiv, financed jointly by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and the Korea Green Growth Trust Fund (KGGTF). The analysis consists of a rigorous...
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Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration : Capturing Lessons and Experience from Japan with a Focus on Kyoto
World Bank Group - 2018
The World Bank Group (WBG) has long recognized that the restoration and preservationof cultural heritage, urban … well conserved UNESCO World Heritage sites and many historic districts …
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Chongqing 2035 : A Green and Low-Carbon Growth Strategy to Decouple Economic Growth from Resource Use
World Bank Group - 2019
Chongqing is at a crossroads where its GDP per capita will reach a level at which cities typically decouple economic growth from energy and resource use, as well as associated carbon emissions and pollution. However, decoupling does not happen automatically. It requires cities to adopt green...
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Myanmar Country Environmental Analysis : A Road towards Sustainability, Peace, and Prosperity -- Synthesis Report
World Bank Group - 2019
Myanmar is rich in natural resources and is a global biodiversity hotspot. Myanmar's forests and fishing industry are two significant contributors to the economy, and yet these sectors are also potentially under threat from over exploitation and mismanagement. The management of solid waste, air...
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Benin - Joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis
World Bank Group - 2019
Benin remains at moderate risk of external debt distress. The rating is unchanged from the previous November 2018 DSA. All the projected external debt burden indicators remain below their thresholds under the baseline, but the ratio of the present value (PV) of external debt to exports exceeds...
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Grenada - Joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis
World Bank Group - 2019
With some 19 million US Dollars (1.6 percent of GDP) in unresolved arrears to official bilateral creditors, Grenada remains in external public debt distress. However, debt appears sustainable reflecting favorable projected debt dynamics from substantial fiscal surpluses that are supported by the...
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Rwanda- Joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis
World Bank Group - 2019
An updated joint assessment of Rwanda's debt sustainability suggests continued low risk of external debt distress. External debt burden indicators remain below risk thresholds, except for a short and temporary breach of debt service indicators in 2023, when the Eurobond issued in 2013 matures....
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Togo- Joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis
World Bank Group - 2019
Togo's risk of external debt distress continues to be moderate, while the overall risk of debt distress is high-unchanged from the previous Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) published in December 2018. While the mechanical results point to a low risk of external debt distress, judgment was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646562
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Vanuatu - Joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis
World Bank Group - 2019
The updated DSA suggests that the external risk of debt distress for Vanuatu remains moderate with limited space to absorb shocks. All external debt indicators remain below the relevant indicative thresholds under the baseline scenario, incorporating the average long-term effects of natural...
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