The report estimated that in the East
Asia and Pacific (EAP) region alone about US$80 billion a
year of additional investments would be required in
low-emission projects...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68491Date: April 30, 2012
For people in developed countries,
burning fuel wood in an open hearth evokes nostalgia and
romance. But in developing countries, the harsh reality is
that several billion...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68279Date: April 27, 2012Author:
Barnes, Douglas F. ;
Kumar, Priti ;
Openshaw, Keith
The report opens with a brief
description of the conceptual framework that guided the
analysis as well as the data used. The next chapter presents
the analysis of changes...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68361Date: April 21, 2012Author:
Fox, Louise ;
Santibanez, Lucrecia ;
Nguyen, Vy ;
Andre, Pierre
This volume is organized as follows.
Chapter one address two questions: how has spatial
concentration evolved with growth and development, and what
are the efficiency...
This volume is organized as follows.
Chapter one discusses the newly revamped non-tariff measure
(NTM) classification system, the data collection effort so
far, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68359Date: April 20, 2012Author:
Cadot,Olivier ;
Malouche,Mariem ;
Saez,Juan Sebastian
Every year, the Global Monitoring Report
(GMR) gauges progress across the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), so we can better understand whether we are
delivering...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68171Date: April 18, 2012
Europe's growth will have to be
golden in yet another sense. Economic prosperity has brought
to Europeans the gift of longer lives, and the
continent's population has...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68168Date: April 18, 2012Author:
Gill,Indermit S. ;
Raiser,Martin
Poor people living in slums are at
particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change
and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable land
within cities,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68358Date: April 17, 2012Author:
Baker,Judy L.
Governments around the world face
ongoing pressures from citizens to provide more and better
services, and to do this under a tight fiscal environment.
This provides...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68166Date: April 13, 2012Author:
Krause,Philipp ;
Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C. ;
Mackay,Keith
The food, fuel, and financial crises
that started in 2008 reverberated throughout the global
economy, causing job losses; poverty; and economic,
financial, and political...
This study is intended for non-Russian
researchers wanting to get familiar with the education
system of the Russian Federation and more generally for all
those involved...
The 1997 Bank reforms that introduced
the matrix management concept aimed to adapt the
organization to changing circumstances and address concerns
among external stakeholders...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68284Date: April 1, 2012Author:
Dani,Anis A.
The fight against corruption is a
developmental imperative. While international efforts have
achieved some significant results, they also illustrate the
extent of the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67627Date: March 16, 2012Author:
Barnes, Daniel W. ;
Berger,Tammar ;
Burdescu,Ruxandra ;
Gilman,Stuart ;
Habershon,Alexandra M. ;
Recanatini,Francesca ;
Reid,Gary J. ;
Trapnell, Stephanie E.
The handbook consists of seven chapters
and two appendixes that look at how broadband is defined,
why it is important, and how its development can be
encouraged. Throughout...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67620Date: March 16, 2012Author:
Kelly, Tim ;
Rossotto, Carlo Maria
The handbook consists of seven chapters
and two appendixes that look at how broadband is defined,
why it is important, and how its development can be
encouraged. Throughout...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67620Date: March 16, 2012Author:
Kelly, Tim ;
Rossotto, Carlo Maria
Every two seconds, across the world, an
area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by
illegal loggers. In some countries, up to 90 percent of all
the logging...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67619Date: March 14, 2012Author:
Pereira Goncalves,Marilyne ;
Greenberg,Theodore Stewart ;
Magrath,William B. ;
Panjer,Melissa
This series was created in 2003 to
promote debate, disseminate information and analysis, and
convey the excitement and complexity of the most topical
issues in economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67523Date: March 13, 2012Author:
Ribe,Helena G. ;
Robalino,David A. ;
Walker,David Ian
Although average incomes in China have
risen dramatically since the 1980s, concerns are increasing
that the rural elderly have not benefited from growth to the
same...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67522Date: March 13, 2012Author:
Cai, Fang ;
Giles,John T. ;
O'Keefe,Philip B. ;
Wang,Dewen
Investments in green projects are
constrained by multiple factors: 1) numerous financial and
institutional constraints; 2) pronounced risks; 3)
unfavorable structure...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67863Date: March 1, 2012Author:
Baietti,Aldo ;
Patel,Urvaksh Daraius ;
La Rocca,Roberto ;
Shlyakhtenko,Andrey
Using a unique firm level data
enterprise surveys the authors develop a new measure of
credit constrained status for firms using hard data instead
of perceptions data....
Type: PublicationReport#: 68292Date: February 14, 2012Author:
Kuntchev,Veselin ;
Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis ;
Ramalho,Rita ;
Yang,Judy
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