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Climate action to unlock the inclusive growth story of the 21st century
Bhattacharya, Amarendra; Ivanyna, Maksym; Oman, William; … - 2021
-challenged world, and the importance of infrastructure investment geared toward such systems changes. The key policies to enable the …
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Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in small developing states with climate vulnerabilities : cost and financing
Tiedemann, Johanna; Piatkov, Veronica; Prihardini, Dinar; … - 2021
Small Developing States (SDS) face substantial challenges in achieving sustainable development. Many of these challenges relate to the small size and limited diversification of their economies. SDS are also among the most vulnerable countries to the impact of climate change and natural...
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Multiple dimensions of Human Development Index and public social spending for sustainable development
Paliova, Iana; McNown, Robert F.; Nülle, Grant - 2019
Multidimensional assessment of human development is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing well-being. The focus of analysis is on the indicators measuring the three dimensions of Human Development Index (HDI) - standard of living, education and health, and their...
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World Development Report 2003 : Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World: Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life
2002
Three billion people will be added to the world's population over the next 50 years and 2.8 billion people today …
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World Development Report 1992 : Development and the Environment
1992
This is the fifteenth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The World Development Report 1992 … report includes the World Development Indicators, which offer selected social and economic statistics on 125 countries …
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Assessing Bias and Accuracy in the World Bank-IMF's Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries
Berg, Andrew - 2014
The World Bank and the IMF have adopted a debt sustainability framework (DSF) to evaluate the risk of debt distress in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411169
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World Development Report 2010 : Development and Climate Change
Bank, World - 2009
the Climate for Development -- The case for action -- A climate-smart world is within reach if we act now, act together … ahead to 2050: Which world? -- Focus B: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate -- 3 Managing Land and … Energizing Development without Compromising the Climate -- Balancing competing objectives -- Where the world needs to go …
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Can they do it all? : fiscal space in low-income countries
Baum, Anja; Hodge, Andrew; Mineshima, Aiko; Moreno … - 2017
According to U.N. estimates, low-income countries will have to increase their annual public spending by up to 30 percent of GDP to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), raising the question of whether they can do it all. This paper develops a new metric of fiscal space in low-income...
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Debt sustainability in low-income countries : policies, institutions, or shocks?
Bal Gündüz, Yasemin - 2017
This paper estimates the determinants of external debt distress in low-income countries (LICs), disentangling the roles of institutions, shocks, and policies. The most prominent factors in raising the risk of debt distress are the weak protection of private property rights, adverse shocks to...
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Assessing bias and accuracy in the World Bank-IMF's debt sustainability framework for low-income countries
Berg, Andrew; Berkes, Enrico; Pattillo, Catherine A.; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359920