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Sustainable Energy for All seeks to improve the lives of billions of people across the world and ensure a more … Global Tracking Framework provides an update of how the world has been moving towards the three objectives over the period … need to be made. Second, it explores the extent to which countries around the world have access to the technology needed to …
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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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a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
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Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally … mobilized if the world is to succeed in meeting its targets. Thus, the potential for Islamic finance to play a role in …
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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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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank's corporate goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting …
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Biologically diverse ecosystems in countries served by the World Bank provide an array of valuable economic services … understanding on how biodiversity is incorporated in a development agency such as the World Bank Group (WBG) and how the WBG can …
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The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) defines civil registration as the continuous, permanent, compulsory and universal recording of the occurrence and characteristics of vital events pertaining to the population, as provided through decree or regulation in accordance with the legal...
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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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