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Indonesia : The Challenges of World Bank Involvement in Forests
Gautam, Madhur; Lele, Uma; Kartodihardjo, Hariadi; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
activities of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. A review of World Bank assistance to Indonesia in the … government and Bank actions toward Indonesia's forests until 1997. The second challenge is to assess the performance of the Bank …
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India : Alleviating Poverty through Forest Development
Kumar, Nalini; Saxena, Naresh; Alagh, Yoginder; Mitra, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
This case study, one of six evaluations in a series of country case studies, aims to understand the implementation of the 1991 Forest Strategy in World Bank operations and to obtain the views of the various stakeholders in the country about the involvement of the Bank. Each country study...
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Brazil - Forests in the Balance : Challenges of Conservation with Development
Lele, Uma; Viana, Virgilio; Verissimo, Adalberto; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
nonlending activities of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. The World Bank has clearly diminished its … strategic issues and smaller projects, including pilot activities. This seems due both to the poor performance of earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903274
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Surge in Solar-Powered Homes : Experience in Off-Grid Rural Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur R.; Samad, Hussain A.; Sadeque, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in raising living standards and reducing poverty, particularly in previously lagging regions. Rapid solar home system (SHS) expansion in Bangladesh to some 3 million rural households by early 2014 has drawn the attention of donors and governments of other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939014
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Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015 : Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank Group; …
capital and the environment can create jobs and make development more inclusive and sustainable, while highlighting how social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010940891
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The Design and Sustainability of Renewable Energy Incentives : An Economic Analysis
Meier, Peter; Vagliasindi, Maria; Imran, Mudassar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011007169
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The Prototype Carbon Fund : Addressing Challenges of Globalization - An Independent Evaluation of the World Bank's Approach to Global Programs
Kelly, Lauren; Jordan, Jeffery - Economics Research, World Bank Group
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929652
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The Bank's Assistance to China's Energy Sector
Churchill, Anthony; Thum, Cordula - Economics Research, World Bank Group
growth and on institutional development (emphasizing technology transfer and capacity building). After the major policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929657
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The World Bank and China's Environment 1993-2003
Varley, Robert C.G. - Economics Research, World Bank Group
period there were four policies against which environmental performance can be judged: mainstreaming the environment … a renewed Bank commitment to the environment, culminating in a new 2001 Bank environmental strategy. For the evaluation …; enforcing environmental safeguards; implementing a global agenda; and environmental stewardship. The environment and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929662
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Reducing the Vulnerability of Georgia's Agricultural Systems to Climate Change : Impact Assessment and Adaptation Options
Ahouissoussi, Nicolas; Neumann, James E.; Srivastava, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
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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