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The Role of Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Sustainable Development
Sobrevila, Claudia - 2010
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 … for their potential value in the future. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been the mainstay of grants implemented …
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The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018 : Building a Sustainable Future
Lange, Glenn-Marie - 2009
capital that are not yet fully incorporated in the wealth accounts: air pollution, marine fisheries, and ecosystems. This book …
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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the GTAP9 Database
Roson, Roberto - 2016
Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...
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Food Safety, the Environment, and Trade
Zilberman, David - 2008
In this paper, the authors discuss the ways in which national governments, firms, and individuals respond to policy related to food safety, environmental protection, and trade. These responses must be considered in the development of policy to ensure the best possible outcomes. It accounts for...
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World development report 2020 : trading for development in the age of global value chains
World Bank (Washington, District of Columbia) - 2019
retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains …
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Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality
World Bank Group - 2020
Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...
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Global Trade Watch 2018 : Trade Amid Tensions
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2019
. Trade policy developments are mixed. Restrictive trade measures imposed during 2018 affected 3.8 percent of world …-for-tat tariffs between the United States and China alone affected 2.0 percent of world merchandise trade in 2018. Ongoing trade … a multilateral approach and World Trade Organization reforms …
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Measuring what matters in global value chains and value-added trade : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Borin, Alessandro; Mancini, Michele - 2019
The spread of global value chains (GVCs) has given rise to new statistical tools, the Inter-Country Input-Output tables and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However, several important questions remain unaddressed. This...
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Trade, global value chains and GDP comovemement : an empirical investigation : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Soyres, François de; Gaillard, Alexandre - 2019
This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement - also called the trade comovement slope- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral trade,...
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Balancing Petroleum Policy : Toward Value, Sustainability, and Security
Huurdeman, Alexander - 2009
Petroleum discovery in a country presents its policy makers with a challenging and complex task: formulating and agreeing on policies that will shape the country's petroleum sector and guide the translation of the newly discovered resources into equitable and sustainable economic and social...
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