Located at the hub of Government’s
decision-making system, center-of-government offices are
crucial to a government’s capacity to define and implement
their policies...
Type: BriefReport#: 98814Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Goldsworthy,Diana
This note reviews the operations and
experience of Tokyo's emissions trading system since
its launch in 2010 and follows on from an earlier issue of
directions in urban...
As a result of climate change, the
spatial distribution of natural ecosystems such as deserts,
rainforest and tundra may no longer have the same spatial
distribution...
Disaster and climate related events
increase the levels of both chronic and transitory poverty,
because poor and near-poor people have fewer coping
mechanisms for recovering....
IFC is working with local and
international Small Hydro Power Plant (SHPP) developers, and
local government and finance institutions to develop
Albania’s renewable energy...
IFC is working with SOFIHDES, a private
development finance corporation, to provide IFC’s Business
Edge management training to entrepreneurs and small and
medium enterprises...
Although Pakistan has made some progress
in improving access to education over the past decade, it
still faces major challenges in providing access to quality
education...
Type: BriefReport#: 79573Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Dundar,Halil ;
Waheed,Huma Ali
In Colombia, researchers used
administrative data to analyze the long-term impact of
conditional cash transfers on schooling. Conditional cash
transfer programs have...
The Caribbean region is unique for many
reasons. Perhaps most striking among these is the
demographic fact that for every resident in the region there
is an individual...
Type: BriefReport#: 78588Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Dhanani, Qahir ;
Lee, Mina J.
Smaller islands in the Caribbean are
faced with the very particular challenge, where the port is
the gateway in and out of the country and a basic pillar for
the economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 78603Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Palsson,Gylfi
In Uganda, researchers evaluated a
government program that gave unsupervised cash grants to
youth for small business development and training. Based on
final results...
Type: BriefReport#: 79446Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Blattman,Christopher ;
Fiala,Nathan V. ;
Martinez,Sebastian
In 2010, the Brazilian Institute of
Corporate Governance (IBGC) reached out to IFC’s
GlobalCorporate Governance Forum for support in its
South-South collaboration project...
Type: BriefReport#: 112546Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Carnevalli Filho,Wilson
IFC is working with local governments in
Peru to invest royalties from extractive industries in
projects that benefit local communities. More specifically,
IFC aims...
Pakistan has taken steps to deliver
social protection services, including unanimously passing
the Benazir income support programme act in 2010, and
setting up systems...
Type: BriefReport#: 79578Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Malik,Iftikhar ;
Pop,Lucian Bucur
Ukraine has the potential to become a
large exporter of dairy, meat, fruits, and vegetables, but
exports to the European Union remain extremely limited,
primarily because...
Type: BriefReport#: 112843Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Harmash,Olena
The Russian Federation is the world’s
third largest energy consuming country. Yet its market
forinvestments in improving energy efficiency had been
developing slowly....
Pakistan's energy sector is facing
a serious crisis. Key challenges include large and growing
shortages of energy, high energy costs, and inefficiencies
that prevent...
Type: BriefReport#: 79558Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Aziz,Rashid
Aquaculture is among the most
sustainable of animal protein production systems. Growth of
aquaculture is needed to meet employment and food security
targets in developing...
Type: BriefReport#: 78823Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Brummett, Randall
Providing timely and appropriate levels
and types of benefits following disasters and climate change
related events is critical. Doing so protects social
protection...
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