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This report discusses Poland's experience along five dimensions. These five dimensions - a pentagon of policies and … institutions are governing, sustaining, connecting, growing, and including. The main lessons from Poland and the key insights for … its future, based on this pentagon, are presented in the lessons and insights summarized in this report. Poland …
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last six months: Despite impressive progress towards sustainability, Poland's coal-dominated energy sector imposes heavy … global environmental benefits are accounted for. Poland is moving in the right direction on energy transition with its …
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Poland's economic development story is one of success: since the early 1990s, the country has transitioned to a market …-income trap and increasing the resilience of its economy. Poland has sustained strong growth over the past three decades, making … considerable gap in both productivity and income convergence when compared with aspirational peers. Poland successfully …
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Serbia needs to transition to a greener growth model for internal and external reasons. Internally, Serbia's economy is still characterized by low energy and resource productivity, with significant impacts on health and the environment. As a candidate country for EU membership, Serbia also needs...
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Over the past decade, material efficiency and resource productivity have surfaced on the global policy agenda. The rise of the circular economy (CE) agenda reflects the objective of moving away from the current systems of production and consumption based on the 'take-make-use-waste' linear...
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In the context of weakening global demand, growth in the Western Balkans decelerated over the course of 2022 and into 2023. Against the background of the lasting effects of shocks from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, sticky inflation, and tighter financial conditions, global demand has been...
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Russian Federation (Russia), Ukraine, Poland, and Romania from 1994 to 2012, complemented by data on impacts of coal industry …, analysis from coal industry adjustment and downsizing experiences in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Romania from 1994 to 2012 …Over the last half century, large-scale changes to coal industries across Europe, and more recently in the United …
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decommissioning of the global coal fleet. Despite widespread recognition of coal power's significant negative impact on climate and … health as well as the urgency of acting in response to climate change, the transition away from coal power has been slow …. This report introduces the global coal power landscape presents arguments for decommissioning coal power, including the …
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Ghana has been a rising growth star and a beacon of hope in West Africa. Strong economic growth over the past two decades led to a near doubling of GDP per capita, lifting the country through the threshold for middle-income status in 2011. GDP per capita grew by an average of 3 percent per year...
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The report identifies the need for reforms in five complementary areas to boost recovery, productivity, and economic transformation: 1) business regulatory environment; 2) foreign direct investment (FDI); 3) access to productive finance; 4) innovation and entrepreneurship; and 5) participation in...
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