Economic and population growth over the past 50 years have increased global natural resource use to levels that severely affect human well-being. In Türkiye, as elsewhere, economic and population growth have been accompanied by increasing levels of material consumption and waste. The need to...

This report examines the transition of Turkish firms to align with circular economy (CE) principles, highlighting both immediate needs and the longer-term opportunities from engaging in a transition agenda. The report stresses that the changing landscape toward the CE in the European Union (EU)...

The present paper is the first attempt toprovide a new blueprint for proactivelyaddressing coal mining lands withina Just Transition framework. It arguesthat traditional approaches to mine landremediation can only go so far in offeringcoal transitioning communities with thenatural capital badly...

This report is an update to the first comprehensive Romania Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD), published in 2018, which identified a set of development priorities for Romania to achieve the twin goals of poverty reduction and shared prosperity. While the earlier diagnostic remains largely...

The rise of the Circular Economy (CE) agenda reflects the objective of moving away from the current systems of production and consumption based on the take-make-use-waste linear economic model toward economies centered on minimizing the use of virgin materials without adversely affecting...

"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and...