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activities of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. A review of World Bank assistance to Indonesia in the …
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strategy, economic and sector work, policy dialogue, and their lending portfolio. The review is divided into two parts. Part 1 …
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nonlending activities of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. The World Bank has clearly diminished its …
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drawn the attention of donors and governments of other countries. The book s broad aim is twofold: (a) to assess the welfare … book's findings show that better household lighting improves household welfare both directly and indirectly. The book has … at the household and village level, while chapter five discusses and estimates the welfare benefits. Chapter six focuses …
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capital and the environment can create jobs and make development more inclusive and sustainable, while highlighting how social …
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Rapid urbanization and economic growth, new demographic trends, and climate change are key challenges that developing countries must face as they strive to meet growing energy demand. The main objectives of this study are to offer: (a) a global taxonomy of the economic and financial incentives...
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The prototype carbon fund (PCF) is a public-private partnership whose mission is to pioneer a market for project-based greenhouse gas emission reductions within the framework of the Kyoto protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). PCF seeks to show how...
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growth and on institutional development (emphasizing technology transfer and capacity building). After the major policy … breakthroughs of the mid-1990s in the power sector, progress on sector reform has slowed and major policy issues in such critical … peripheral subsectors such as renewables and energy efficiency where policy issues are less sensitive and government buy-in more …
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a renewed Bank commitment to the environment, culminating in a new 2001 Bank environmental strategy. For the evaluation … period there were four policies against which environmental performance can be judged: mainstreaming the environment …; enforcing environmental safeguards; implementing a global agenda; and environmental stewardship. The environment and social …
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In countries such as Georgia, the risks of climate change for the agricultural sector are a particularly immediate and important problem because the majority of the rural population depends either directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. The most effective plans for adapting...
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