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Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments : the gender dimension

Lauterbach, Claire; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013

. This report evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments … investments. The report concludes with recommendations for making World Bank investments responsive to women's needs and rights …. -- World Bank ; development aid ; gender ; effectiveness …

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Producing biofuels in low-income countries : an integrated environmental and economic assessment for Tanzania

Branca, Giacomo; Felix, Erika; Maltsoglou, Irini; … - 2014

This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania. Sequentially-linked models capture natural resource constraints; emissions from land use change; economywide growth linkages; and household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic...

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Could free trade alleviate effects of climate change? : a worldwide analysis with emphasis on Morocco and Turkey

Ouraich, Ismail; Dudu, Hasan; Tyner, Wallace E.; … - 2014

productivity shocks on agriculture. Our findings suggest that the world as a whole benefits the more trade is liberalized. For …

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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications

Victor, David G. - 2013

The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...

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An integrated analysis of economywide effects of climate change

Dudu, Hasan; Çakmak, Erol H. - 2014

The effects of climate change in Turkey are expected to be significant. The aim of this paper is to quantify the effects of climate change on the overall economy by using an integrated framework incorporating a computable general equilibrium model and a crop water requirement model for the...

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Aid and growth accelerations : vulnerability matters

Guillaumont, Patrick; Wagner, Laurent - 2012

This working paper has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project 'Foreign Aid': Research and This paper confronts three conundrums. First, does the relationship between aid and growth fade over time when aid is successful? Second, why are aid inflows neglected in the literature on growth...

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Falling oil prices and sustainable energy transition : towards a multilateral agreement on fossil-fuel subsidies

Asmelash, Henok Birhanu - 2016

World Trade Organization. …

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COVID-19 and informal work : degrees and pathways of impact in 11 cities around the world

Chen, Martha Alter; Grapsa, Erofili; Ismail, Ghida; … - 2022

informal workers in 11 cities across five regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America …

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The global inequality boomerang

Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022

In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...

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The World Bank's health projects in Timor-Leste : the political economy of effective aid

Rosser, Andrew; Bremner, Sharna - 2013

The World Bank's health sector projects in Timor-Leste - the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and … resistance to the World Bank's health policy agenda compared to its policy agenda in other sectors. In terms of wider lessons, we …

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