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Price Volatility in Food and Agricultural Markets : Policy Responses

FAO - 2011

The approach taken in this report reflects the view of the collaborating international organizations that price volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and long-term, with highly differentiated impacts on...

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Development, Climate Change and Human Rights from the Margins to the Mainstream?

Cameron, Edward - 2011

Climate Change Cluster of the World Bank's Social Development Department. It is important to stress that this paper is not a …

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Education in a Changing World : Flexibility, Skills, and Employability

Wang, Yidan - 2012

New technologies, globalization, the information revolution, and labor market changes have affected the world economy … on an unprecedented scale. As a consequence, the demand for a skilled workforce has increased, world trade and migration … of the opportunities made possible by globalization and technological change. This paper puts education under the lens of …

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How to Keep Momentum Up in Carbon Markets?

Ambrosi, Philippe - 2011

This note examines how to maximize the benefits from the use of market instruments in support of developing countries' low-emission development priorities. First, it briefly surveys the current state and trends of the carbon market, highlighting the main achievements of carbon finance over its...

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Agricultural Education, Science and Modern Technology's Role in Solving the Problems of Global Food Resources in the 21st Century

McCalla, Alex F. - 1998

limits on agricultural production as serious and imminent. Since then world population has increased by six-fold and global …

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Improving the Assessment of Disaster Risks to Strengthen Financial Resilience : A Special Joint G20 Publication by the Government of Mexico and the World Bank

Government of Mexico - 2012

risk management. In 2011 the world witnessed record losses from disasters caused by natural hazards with estimated costs of …

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Corporate Governance and Development : An Update

Claessens, Stijn - 2012

What do we know about the links between economic development and corporate governance in emerging markets? Stijn Claessens and Burcin Yurtoglu have sifted through scores of academic studies on various countries, sectors, and business organizations - from state-owned enterprises to publicly...

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The Road to 2020 : Scenarios for a World in Crisis

Djankov, Simeon - 2012

development experts from IFC, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank discussed the unfolding crisis. This paper is a … product of the staff of the Financial and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group. The scenarios … described in this paper do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank Group, its Executive Directors, or the …

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Assessing the Investment Climate for Climate Investments : A Comparative Clean Energy Framework for South Asia in a Global Context

World Bank - 2012

Mitigating climate change while addressing development needs will involve a massive scale-up of investments in Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE). Most of these climate investments will come from the private sector, which will be the main driver of low-carbon growth in both...

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

World Bank Group - 2017

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) programs implemented in developing countries with an...

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