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The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018 : Building a Sustainable Future
Lange, Glenn-Marie - 2009
Countries regularly track gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of their economic progress, but not wealth … report on both their income and assets to assess their economic health and prospects for the future. Wealth accounts allow …. The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future covers national wealth for 141 countries over 20 years …
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The seasonality of conflict
Guardado, Jenny; Pennings, Steven - 2020
This paper investigates whether poor employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel conflict. The paper provides a new test of this "opportunity cost mechanism" using one of the largest shocks to labor demand in agricultural societies: harvest. Theoretically, the paper shows that...
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Scaling Up Finance for Sustainable Energy Investments
Kim, Jim Yong - 2015
Remarks delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, review the commitment to the U.N. Decade for Sustainable Energy for All. The initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership working with governments, businesses, civil society, banks and international institutions to meet three...
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Green Hydrogen in Developing Countries
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program - 2020
In the future, green hydrogen-hydrogen produced with renewable energy resources-could provide developing countries with a zero-carbon energy carrier to support national sustainable energy objectives, and it needs further consideration by policy makers and investors. Developing countries with...
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Sustainable Energy for All 2015 : Progress Toward Sustainable Energy
Bazilian, Morgan (contributor); Foster, Vivien (contributor) - World Bankgroup - 2015 - Online-Ausg.
Sustainable Energy for All seeks to improve the lives of billions of people across the world and ensure a more sustainable future by working to achieve its three global objectives: universal access to energy; doubling of the rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and doubling of the share of...
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China's Envisaged Renewable Energy Target : The Green Leap Forward
World Bank - 2010
This policy note is a summary of the findings of a joint study of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, and the World Bank. The policy note is organized as follows: the next section, 'in the shadow of king coal,' provides a brief history of the...
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Thailand : Clean Energy for Green Low-Carbon Growth
World Bank Group - 2011
Thailand needs to avoid the high-carbon growth path of many developed countries and, instead, take a low-carbon growth path. A green low-carbon growth path is in Thailand's own interest as it can simultaneously tackle local environmental degradation, global climate change, and energy security...
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Paying attention to profitable investments : experimental evidence from renewable energy markets
Coville, Aidan; Orozco-Olvera, Victor H.; Reichert, Arndt R. - 2019
This paper provides an explanation for why many information campaigns fail to affect decision-making. The authors experimentally show that a large information intervention about a profitable and climate-friendly household investment had limited effects if it only provided generic data. In...
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An evaluative look behind the curtain : World Bank Group staff's early experience with the shared prosperity goal
Smets, Lodewijk; Bogetić, Željko - 2018
In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as fostering the growth in the income of the poorest 40 percent of the population in each...
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Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 : Reversals of Fortune
World Bank (Washington, District of Columbia) - 2020
Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. This edition brings the unwelcome news that COVID-19, along with conflict and climate change, has not merely...
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