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Is Green Growth Good for the Poor?
Dercon, Stefan - 2013
The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557113
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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth
Popp, David - 2013
By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557120
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Impact of Behavioral Issues on Green Growth Policies and Weather-Related Disaster Reduction in Developing Countries
Kunreuther, Howard; Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2013
This paper focuses on how developing countries can change the way they prepare for disasters so they are better equipped to sustain economic growth. It discusses the importance of considering the goals of key decision makers and the need to understand the perceptions, systematics biases, and...
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On the Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Islamic Finance
Ahmed, Habib; Mohieldin, Mahmoud; Verbeek, Jos - 2015
Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally … mobilized if the world is to succeed in meeting its targets. Thus, the potential for Islamic finance to play a role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564673
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Post-Conflict Justice and Sustainable Peace
Lie, Tove Grete; Binningsb??, Helga Malmin; Gates, Scott - 2012
No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552640
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Trade in a ???Green Growth??? Development Strategy : Global Scale Issues and Challenges
de Melo, Jaime - 2013
playing field' would be ineffective and result in destructive conflicts in the World Trade Organization. Lack of progress at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557119
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Bailing Out the World's Poorest
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552231
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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012
The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …
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Is the Developing World Catching up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552246
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Who Are the Net Food Importing Countries?
Ng, Francis; Aksoy, M. Ataman - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to update the information on net food importing countries, using different definitions of food, separating countries by their level of income, whether they are in conflict and whether they are significant oil exporters. The study also estimates the changes in net...
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