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Results-Based Climate Finance in Practice : Delivering Climate Finance for Low-Carbon Development

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Results-based financing is a well-established financing modality in the health and education sectors but it is still in … an early stage of deployment in the area of climate change. This report reviews 74 results-based climate financing (RBCF … sector activity and financing. RBCF can thus play a critical role in mobilizing the resources and supporting the policies and …

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Valuation of Ecosystem Services in World Bank Group Work

Lange, Glenn-Marie - 2010

In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA, 2005) provided the first comprehensive report on global ecosystems, the dependence of human societies on the services provided, current state, and likely future trajectory. The MA identified the failure to value ecosystem services as a major...

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Relative prices and relative prosperity

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Does world investment demand determine US exports?

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Applying Results-Based Financing in Water Investments

Rodriguez, Diego - 2014

Given the broad array of issues and the complexity faced by the water sector as a whole (from irrigation to flood protection, to water conservation and hydropower), there is great demand for future exploring the potential of RBF and tackling the questions still unanswered about many of its...

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Public-Private Partnerships for Investment and Delivery of Affordable Housing in Emerging Market Economies

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The role of the public sector in housing delivery in many developed economies evolved from government as builder in the post-War era in the 1950s when the government directly constructed and delivered housing to meet the daunting demand for housing, to government as enabler and regulator in the...

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Investor Protection, Ownership, and the Cost of Capital

Himmelberg, Charles P.; Hubbard, R. Glenn; Love, Inessa - 2013

The authors combine the agency theory of the firm with risk diversification incentives for insiders. Principal-agent problems between insiders and outsiders force insiders to retain a larger share in their firm than they would under a perfect risk diversification strategy. The authors predict...

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Global Economic Prospects, January 2017 : Weak Investment in Uncertain Times

2017 - Online-Ausg.

Stagnant global trade, subdued investment, and heightened policy uncertainty marked another difficult year for the … market and developing economies. Weak investment is weighing on medium-term prospects across many emerging market and … Economic Prospects includes a chapter on the causes, consequences and policy implications of weak investment in emerging …

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