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Remarks delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group discuss the critical role of inclusive and … resources, develop green areas, and reflect upgraded environment standards and environmental inspection systems. The World Bank …
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The Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016: Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change details the progress toward the global development goals and examines the impact of demographic change on achieving these goals. Part I examines global development progress, the unfinished development...
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Sanitation services are beneficial for communities at large. They generate strong positive health and environmental benefits to society ('externalities'). Public financing is an important way to stimulate the provision of these services, but there are serious issues with the way public subsidies...
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In 2012, the Mexican Presidency of the G20 introduced inclusive green growth as a cross-cutting priority on the G20 development agenda. The second meeting of the G20 Development Working Group (DWG), hosted by the Government of the Republic of Korea, took place in Seoul the 19th and 20th of March...
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The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) at its core. A dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) declares a commitment to "ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all." Monitoring progress toward this...
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Logistics and supply chains are the wheels of trade, commerce and economic activity around the world. However, in … segments. There is significant opportunity and potential in establishing this service in emerging economies around the world …
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This report analyses options to make international public climate finance more transformative. The report identifies eight sets of levers to drive climate action: project-based investments, financial sector reform, fiscal policy, sectoral policies, trade policy, innovation and technology...
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development that was jointly organized by the World Bank Group and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton … Development, and its associated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The world's youth will implement this global agenda … world to develop and share their ideas for innovative approaches, through the smart use of technology, as well as financing …
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The operations policy on Development Policy Lending (DPL), approved by the Board in August 2004, requires that the Bank systematically analyze whether specific country policies supported by an operation are likely to have "significant effects" on the country's environment, forests, and other...
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