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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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This paper investigates institutional factors affecting the performance of genuine savings (GS), which is often used in …
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In this paper, we consider how genuine savings would be altered if the adjustment costs of capitals are taken into … account in the stylized capitalresource model. It is shown that, in order to derive the modified genuine savings, through … shadow prices, the original genuine savings have to be divided by the marginal adjustment costs of the capital in question …
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We adopt the definition of sustainability as “non-declining welfare per capita”, and measure genuine savings and change … in wealth per capita as indicator of weak sustainability. The results suggests that the overall trend in sustainability … as measured by changes in wealth per capita had shown that the Indonesian economy during the last twenty years had not …
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