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Thailand : Clean Energy for Green Low-Carbon Growth
World Bank Group - 2011
Thailand needs to avoid the high-carbon growth path of many developed countries and, instead, take a low-carbon growth path. A green low-carbon growth path is in Thailand's own interest as it can simultaneously tackle local environmental degradation, global climate change, and energy security...
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The demand for Oil Products in Developing Countries.
Gately, D.; Streifel, S.S. - World Bank Group - 1997
Oil and energy markets have experienced dramatic changes over the past two decades-steep price increases in the 1970s and 1980s followed by a decrease in 1986 and large declines in demand in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. But despite considerable uncertainty about future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779936
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Public Expenditure Reform under Adjustment Lending. Lessons from World Bank Experiences
Huther, J.; Roberts, S.; Shah, A. - World Bank Group - 1997
subsidies, reforming public employment, cutting the public sector wage bill, emphasizing operations and maintenance of existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669729
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Subsidies in World Fisheries. A Reexamination
Milazzo, M. - World Bank Group - 1998
biological production capacity. It uses the definitions and methodology of the WTO on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures of …This study examines the role of subsidies in explaining the obvious and injurious mismatch between fishing effort and … 1994 in defining the nature and size of subsidies to the sector and their impact, based on case studies for Japan, the …
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SUBSIDIES AND COUNTERVAILING MEASURES - CRITICAL ISSUES FOR THE URUGUAY ROUND.
BALASSA, B. - World Bank Group - 1989
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Successful Rural Finance Institutions.
Yaron, J. - World Bank Group - 1992
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China : 40-Year Experience in Renewable Energy Development; Policies, Achievements, and Lessons Learned
World Bank Group - 2021
China made impressive progress in developing renewable energy to provide access to clean energy and electricity to its predominantly rural population before the economic boom that followed the open door policy, by improving energy supply to the economy as the country industrialized and urbanized...
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Energizing Africa : Achievements and Lessons from the Africa Renewable Energy and Access Program Phase I
World Bank Group - 2015
Access to energy and economic development go hand in hand. Improving electricity supply and distribution boosts economic growth, creates jobs, and expands the reach of educational and health services. It can also empower women, providing income-generating opportunities and enabling them to spend...
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Afghanistan Renewable Energy Development Issues and Options
World Bank Group - 2018
Afghanistan is facing many economic and political challenges as it deals with spreading insurgency, declining economic growth, and continuing poverty. The government is working on a number of fronts to stimulate economic activity through its own initiatives and in partnership with International...
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Improving the Investment Climate for Renewable Energy : Through Benefit Sharing, Risk Management, and Local Community Engagement
World Bank Group - 2019
The report, a joint effort between the World Bank's Social Development Global Practice and International Finance Corporation (IFC) advisory services, is based on the idea that local engagement, for example, through benefit sharing, is an important way for better risk management and creating a...
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