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and less predictable, and sea levels rise. This World Bank Group Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) shows …
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the world's highest levels of exposure to floods and extreme heat. However, building climate resilience also offers an … accelerated decarbonization and changing consumption and production patterns in the rest of the world. With the right policy …
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Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way. This first edition of a … new World Bank flagship report, 'Global Development Horizons 2011', focuses on three major international economic trends …
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alleviation. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and …
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-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource … energy-efficiency issues as this is the particular focus of the World Bank's Climate Competitive Industries program, and is …
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Chongqing is at a crossroads where its GDP per capita will reach a level at which cities typically decouple economic growth from energy and resource use, as well as associated carbon emissions and pollution. However, decoupling does not happen automatically. It requires cities to adopt green...
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The Lao PDR sits at the intersection of four critical ecoregions and is home to some of the world's biologically … protected areas, and expansion of agriculture and settlements. This World Bank report outlines key challenges and priority …
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, prices for both mobile communications and fixed broadband are higher in the DR than in peer countries. Following the World …
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Like most countries in the world, Vietnam is increasingly seeing its development affected by climate change. With a … climate change around the world. Vietnam has historically had very low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but over the past two … decades, it has seen some of the fastest emissions growth rates in the world. From 2000 to 2015, as GDP per capita increased …
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This country economic memorandum aims to support Niger's efforts to walk on a path conducive to a resilient and sustainable economic growth. It does so by attempting to answer the following five questions, each of which constitutes a separate chapter: (i) what were the salient structural...
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