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understanding on how biodiversity is incorporated in a development agency such as the World Bank Group (WBG) and how the WBG can … enhance its role in biodiversity and ecosystems protection and management as a key ingredient to reach development …-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and indigenous groups. Biodiversity provides many instrumental benefits, from food and fuel to recreation. But …
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contingent upon 'better management of Somalia's environment and its natural resources.' The Somalia CEA is an analytical document … that systematically evaluates Somalia's environment and natural resources (ENR) sector, using both authors' own data and … the interlinkages between environment and development and herald better coordination among development partners on matters …
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living. The impact of the state of the environment on the living standards of herders is obvious, but also Mongolians living … support environmental activities in Mongolia. Under this framework, the World Bank contracted the first Environment and …. Finally, section seven shows results on perceptions and opinions of Mongolians regarding nature and the environment …
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The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is increasingly recognizing that adequate valuation of ecosystem services is a key input to improved decision-making on protected areas, forest and natural resources more generally; but the lack of data, accepted methodologies and technical capacity have...
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richest and most endangered terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and species. The biodiversity endowment is crucial to the Lao … greener economic growth model. But Lao biodiversity is in danger. The highest priority threats to the country's biodiversity … actions to ameliorate the main threats to biodiversity and to sustainably utilize the biodiversity assets to help drive Lao …
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Countries regularly track gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of their economic progress, but not wealth-the assets such as infrastructure, forests, minerals, and human capital that produce GDP. In contrast, corporations routinely report on both their income and assets to assess their...
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This paper develops a multi-sector, small open economy Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model, which includes the accumulation of human capital, built via public expenditures in education and health. Four possible fiscal rules are examined for total public investment in infrastructure,...
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country's environment, forests, and other natural resources. The implicit objective behind this requirement is to ensure that … there is adequate capacity in the country to deal with adverse effects on the environment, forests, and other natural … public sector reform and governance, there is less potential for likely significant impacts on the natural environment and …
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Africa, unique in a number of respects, is having deleterious and largely unchecked impacts on the natural environment; the …
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rationale for Amazon protection: the valuation of its biodiversity and forests as natural heritage to the international …
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