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Managing Pollution for Poverty Reduction and Green Development
World Bank Group - 2010
The World Bank Group (WBG) has been active in public and private sector pollution management for the past several decades. The Bank has mainstreamed environmental health concerns into its rural and urban services through projects that improved the management of solid and hazardous waste and...
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Accelerating Clean, Green, and Climate-Resilient Growth in Vietnam : A Country Environmental Analysis
World Bank Group - 2022
Vietnam has demonstrated great and almost unrivaled development success over the past few decades as evidenced by a variety of measures, including national income, poverty reduction, and access to services. However, Vietnam's performance in terms of progress on robust, equitable and sustainable...
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Pakistan Strategic Country Environmental Assessment
World Bank Group - 2006
The urgency of addressing Pakistan's environmental problems has probably never been greater. Conservative estimates presented in this report suggest that environmental degradation costs the country at least 6 percent of GDP, or about Rs. 365 billion per year, and these costs fall...
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Zambia - Joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis
World Bank Group - 2019
Framework (LIC DSF) to assess Zambia's current debt situation. Debt burden indicators have deteriorated considerably since the …-be-disbursed loans place Zambia's public debt on an unsustainable path under current policies while budget expenditure arrears have risen …. Zambia's debt-carrying capacity has also weakened with its FX reserves' import coverage declining from 4.7 months in 2015 to …
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Nepal Infrastructure Sector AssessmentPrivate Sector Solutions for Sustainable Infrastructure Development
World Bank Group - 2019
Despite several severe shocks in the past, conflict, unstable governments, earthquakes, and trade disruptions, Nepal has made strong progress in reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. With the decade-long peace and constitutional process concluded, the Government of Nepal is keen to...
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Valuing Green Infrastructure : Case Study of Kali Gandaki Watershed, Nepal
World Bank Group - 2019
Watersheds are an appropriate and effective unit for managing ecological assets, given the interconnected nature of economic activities and their impacts within a watershed, locally and regionally, upstream and downstream. Watersheds are increasingly recognized as a critical form of green...
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Tunisia Infrastructure Diagnostic
World Bank Group - 2019
Tunisia's has made significant investments in infrastructure, which has contributed to economic growth. The investments have enabled reasonably good access to basic infrastructure services. While access rates are high, the relative quality of Tunisia's infrastructure has deteriorated...
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Financing a Resilient Urban Future : A Policy Brief on World Bank and Global Experience on Financing Climate-Resilient Urban Infrastructure
World Bank Group - 2018
In the coming decades, climate change will force cities to grapple with new operating conditions to construct and maintain key urban infrastructure. Strategies for covering the costs of climate-resilient upgrades will vary by locale, reflecting differing market, regulatory, and policy...
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Pakistan at 100 : Environmental Sustainability
World Bank Group - 2019
This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100, Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at 100 discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle-income country when it turns 100 years old in 2047. This policy note...
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Ecological Compensation in China : Trends and Opportunities for Incentive-Based Policies Towards a Greener China
World Bank Group - 2022
China is a global leader in the use of ecological compensation ("eco-compensation")-fiscal transfers for environmental and natural resources management. China is one of the most fiscally decentralized countries in the world, with 85 percent of government spending occurring at subnational levels....
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