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Incentivizing Sustainable Private Sector Investment in Timber Plantations in Myanmar : Policy Options to Encourage Socially and Environmentally Responsible Investment
World Bank Group - 2020
Forestry has traditionally been one of Myanmar's most important economic sectors, generating more in export earnings in the period 2010-2018. It is estimated that the country will have lost 12 million ha of forest between 1990 and 2020 - the third largest absolute forest loss of all countries...
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ESG Integration at the Government Pension Fund of Thailand
World Bank Group - 2024
This report describes the ESG integration practices at GPF as a practical example of how a pension fund can integrate … ESG considerations into its investment practices and processes. The report focuses on the incorporation of ESG issues into … ESG disclosure practices whilst also key to GPF's overall approach, are not discussed in detail in this report. The report …
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Government Pension Fund Thailand Environmental, Social, and Governance Weight and Score : Asset Valuation Methodology
World Bank Group - 2020
(ESG). In 2018, GPF publicly announced its commitment to ESG investing and its intention to be the leader in ESG investing … document provides a detailed description of the approach, explaining how one analyze and weight ESG factors at the sectoral and …
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The World Bank's Early Support to Addressing Coronavirus (COVID-19) Health and Social Response : An Early-Stage Evaluation
World Bank Group - 2022
This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank's early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps toward recovery, focusing on the health and social response. It concentrates on the relief stage and support to restructure systems in the first 15 months of the pandemic...
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Sustainable Investment : Best Practice Disclosure Checklist for Pension Funds
World Bank Group - 2020
There are compelling reasons for asset owners - in particular large pension funds and sovereign wealth funds - to adopt sustainable investment, and for governments to support them in these endeavors. First, asset owners have a key role to play in providing the capital that supports national...
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The Landscape for Institutional Investing in 2018 : Perspectives of Institutional Investors, An Input into the Investor Forum
World Bank Group - 2018
The high-level Investor Forum will take place on November 29, 2018, in Buenos Aires, hosted by the President of Argentina, this year's chair of the G20, and co-organized with the World Bank Group. The Forum will bring together leaders from the public sector and the global investment communityto...
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Climate Change in APEC : Assessing Risks, Preparing Financial Markets, and Mobilizing Institutional Investors
World Bank Group - 2020
The World Bank Group prepared this report, Climate Change in APEC: Assessing Risks, Preparing Financial Markets, and Mobilizing Institutional Investors to inform policymakers, financial sector regulators, and investors from across APEC member economies about the interconnected climate change...
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Leveraging Pension Fund Investment for Domestic Development : Namibia's Regulation 29 Approach
World Bank Group - 2020
The note describes Namibia's approach to support domestic economic development via mandating investment of a percentage of the large pool of local institutional capital in alternative financing vehicles within the context of an underdeveloped capital market. Namibian approach diverges from...
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Metropolitan Governance in Brazil
World Bank Group - 2015
In less than fifty years, Brazil evolved from a predominantly rural society and economy to a highly urbanized country in which 85 percent of its people now live in urban areas and more than 90 percent of the country’s GDP is generated in the cities. This rapid urbanization process was...
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Metropolitan Governance in Brazil
World Bank Group - 2015
In less than fifty years, Brazil evolved from a predominantly rural society and economy to a highly urbanized country in which 85 percent of its people now live in urban areas and more than 90 percent of the country’s GDP is generated in the cities. This rapid urbanization process was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564726