The paper discusses key challenges faced throughout the Asia and the Pacific region as a number of its developing economies graduate from low-income status to middle-income status at the same time as the region remains home to the majority of the world's poor people and a number of fragile...

In "Common Wealth", Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller "The End of Poverty" offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and...

Weltweit steht die Wirtschaft vor einer großen Krise, die unsere ökonomischen Gewissheiten auf den Kopf stellen wird. Jeffrey Sachs führt drastisch vor Augen, dass wir ein neues ökonomisches Paradigma brauchen, um auf unserem Planeten überleben zu können. Er zeigt, welche Rahmenbedingungen...

Green growth entails several different kinds of processes: conversion to low-carbon energy, climate resilience, and response to climate shocks. Equity implies a fair sharing of the costs, within countries and between countries. The authors set out to explore some of the ways that equity has been...

The authors set out to explore some of the ways that equity has been considered in climate change discussions. They discuss per capita emission right approaches, and highlight key challenges in the application of equity in global climate change negotiations. They provide a brief overview of key...