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This evaluation is the first of a series that seeks lessons from the World Bank Group's experience on how to carve out … a sustainable growth path. The World Bank Group has never had an explicit corporate strategy on climate change against …, the links to pricing policy and to carbon finance, and the existence of the World Bank-led initiative to reduce flaring. …
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on energy price reform and policies for energy efficiency, both of which offer potentially large gains at the country …-resilient growth paths. The Bank can proactively help interested clients to assess the domestic benefits of price reform and efficiency …
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World War II, while using such additional international assistance in a similar manner to generate complementary increases …
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The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...
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Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging US$100 billion annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have little evidence that climate aid actually encourages...
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Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, we study the channels through which natural disaster shocks affect macroeconomic outcomes and welfare in disaster-prone countries. We solve the model using Taylor projection, a solution method that is shown to deal effectively with...
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