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Open Source for Global Public Goods
World Bank Group - 2019
This technical note is intended to contribute to understanding of how to leverage open source software (OSS) for global public goods particularly in resource-constrained environments. The aim is to enable a more deliberate approach to building information systems that can serve as a global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646923
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247863
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Understanding the economic impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation policies on shipping : what is the state of the art of current modeling approaches?
Halim, Ronald A.; Smith, Tristan; Englert, Dominik - 2019
The International Maritime Organization's initial strategy on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships … stipulates that the international shipping sector should assess the impacts on states prior to adoption of the mitigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002701
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : an Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2012
World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247797
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Group incentives for the public good : a field experiment on improving the urban environment
Newman, Carol; Mitchell, Tara; Holmlund, Marcus; … - 2019
How to maintain communal spaces is an important concern in many developing countries, particularly in urban environments. But what strategies can communities use to overcome the public goods problems involved in maintaining their local environment? This paper investigates whether changing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168109
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Growth, safety nets and poverty : assessing progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Tsehaye, Eyasu - 2018
In the past 10 years, Ethiopia experienced high and consistent growth, invested in public goods provision to poor households, and saw impressive gains in well-being for many households. This paper exploits variation in sectoral growth and public goods provision across zones and time, to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843830
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Political Economy of Regional Integration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brenton, Paul - 2016
World Bank and other development agencies can help further facilitate it, the World Bank commissioned a set of political … for further efforts in these areas by the World Bank and other development agencies. In a comparative context, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644427
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Public-Private Dialogue in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations : Experiences and Lessons Learned
World Bank Group - 2014
economy. To support PPD projects in FCS, the World Bank Group has conducted a survey of 27 task team leaders and other program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644796
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Too global to fail : the World Bank at the intersection of national and global public policy in 2025
Evans, J. W. - 2015 - Online-Ausg.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245116
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Demand and Supply Curves in Political Markets : Understanding the Problem of Public Goods and Why Governments Fail Them
Khemani, Stuti - 2017
This paper brings the economic tools of demand and supply curves to better understand how political markets shape the selection of government policies. It does so to tackle a problem at the intersection of political science and economics: government failure to pursue policies on the basis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245645