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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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The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...
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accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food …
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used to achieve the joint objectives of development, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture in the … developing world. The results show that agriculture is underinvested and foreign aid has not increased sufficiently to assist … developing countries achieve sustainable agriculture; substantial funds are needed to finance the wide range of measures for …
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Large hydropower dams are at the centre of a debate weighing the value and costs of renewable energy against the risks …
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unemployment, poverty, and inequality in South Africa, there are concerns that a rapid transition to a low-carbon energy system … Project, and analyses the impacts on the energy system and the economy of an increase in ambition, in order to shed light on …
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This paper provides an overview of the energy transition in Asia. It sets out the underlying drivers and how these set … energy transition priorities in China, India, and South East Asia. It particularly describes the role of (liquefied) natural … gas in the growing energy demand and changing energy mix. A comparison is then made for each of the three regions on how …
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energy transition, and how these affect the role of (and demand for) gas going forward in Asia. Asia is expected to be the …
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together with metals and minerals - as policies and new technologies encourage progress along low-carbon pathways in energy …, transportation and construction to combat climate change. Adoption of renewable energy is accelerating across the world, but fossil …
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regimes. Countries that maintain fixed price regimes-notably net energy exporters-tend to have large fuel subsidies. When such …
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