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The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018 : Building a Sustainable Future
Lange, Glenn-Marie - 2009
Countries regularly track gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of their economic progress, but not wealth … report on both their income and assets to assess their economic health and prospects for the future. Wealth accounts allow …. The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future covers national wealth for 141 countries over 20 years …
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Pricing Pollution
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2020
I examine a policy-making game among countries that must choose both a policy instrument (e.g., a tax or a quota) and its intensity (i.e., the tax rate or the quota level) to price pollution. When countries price pollution non-cooperatively, they not only set the intensity inefficiently, they...
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The seasonality of conflict
Guardado, Jenny; Pennings, Steven - 2020
This paper investigates whether poor employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel conflict. The paper provides a new test of this "opportunity cost mechanism" using one of the largest shocks to labor demand in agricultural societies: harvest. Theoretically, the paper shows that...
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Cracks in the Boards : The Opportunity Cost of Governance Homogeneity
Maghin, Helene - 2022
Does the composition of governance affect firm outcomes? We exploit the timings and thresholds of a gender quota in boards of directors and supervisory boards to causally determine the impact of a change in leadership on performance. Using a novel design and data on boards, we find that firms...
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Scaling Up Finance for Sustainable Energy Investments
Kim, Jim Yong - 2015
Remarks delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, review the commitment to the U.N. Decade for Sustainable Energy for All. The initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership working with governments, businesses, civil society, banks and international institutions to meet three...
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Green Hydrogen in Developing Countries
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program - 2020
In the future, green hydrogen-hydrogen produced with renewable energy resources-could provide developing countries with a zero-carbon energy carrier to support national sustainable energy objectives, and it needs further consideration by policy makers and investors. Developing countries with...
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Sustainable Energy for All 2015 : Progress Toward Sustainable Energy
Bazilian, Morgan (contributor); Foster, Vivien (contributor) - World Bankgroup - 2015 - Online-Ausg.
Sustainable Energy for All seeks to improve the lives of billions of people across the world and ensure a more sustainable future by working to achieve its three global objectives: universal access to energy; doubling of the rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and doubling of the share of...
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China's Envisaged Renewable Energy Target : The Green Leap Forward
World Bank - 2010
This policy note is a summary of the findings of a joint study of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, and the World Bank. The policy note is organized as follows: the next section, 'in the shadow of king coal,' provides a brief history of the...
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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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Paying attention to profitable investments : experimental evidence from renewable energy markets
Coville, Aidan; Orozco-Olvera, Victor H.; Reichert, Arndt R. - 2019
This paper provides an explanation for why many information campaigns fail to affect decision-making. The authors experimentally show that a large information intervention about a profitable and climate-friendly household investment had limited effects if it only provided generic data. In...
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