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Engaging the private sector for green growth and climate action : an overview of development co-operation efforts

Crishna Morgado, Naeeda; Lasfargues, Bérénice - 2017

The private sector plays an important role in supporting green growth in developing countries. As a result, there is increasing emphasis for development co-operation providers to integrate private sector engagement (PSE) approaches into their programmes on green growth and climate change. This...

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Green triangular co-operation : an accelerator to sustainable development

Casado-Asensio, Juan; Pelechà Aigües, Néstor; … - 2019

This report showcases how triangular co-operation can contribute to achieving ‘green’ objectives (e.g. on climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, biodiversity, desertification, and local environmental issues). Data collected through an OECD survey on triangular co-operation...

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Managing environmental risks in development banks and development finance institutions : what role for donor shareholders?

Morgado, Naeeda Crishna; Taşkın, Özlem - 2019

How and where infrastructure is built – and how environmental and social risks related to infrastructure are managed – will have a direct influence on whether developing countries pursue more sustainable development pathways or not. Development banks and development finance institutions...

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Organic agriculture in least developed countries in relation to the development of the organic farming sector in Poland : the example of African xountries versus the organic sector in Poland

Rydz-Żbikowska, Anna - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 209-230

Over the past few years, organic farming has seen a dynamic development globally. In 2015, the global market for organic products was €81.6 billion, rising to more than €90 billion in 2018 (Światowy rynek produktów ekologicznych osiągnął wartość 90 mld euro 2019). There has also been...

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Measurement of Sustainability Indicators and Implications for Macroeconomic Policy Modelling in Developing Countries

Tiwari, Dirgha Nidhi - 2014

This paper reviews sustainability concepts and measures sustainability indicators in the context of a least developed country Nepal, and a developing country Thailand in order to judge the economy's performance with the use of natural resources and the environment. In both the country cases,...

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The role of fintech in unlocking green finance : policy insights for developing countries

Nassiry, Darius - 2018

The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and implementation of the Paris Agreement will require significant new investment. New financial technologies ("fintech") offer the potential to unlock green finance technologies, such as blockchain, the Internet of Things and big data,...

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Promoting Biofuels : Implications for Developing Countries

Peters, Jörg; Thielmann, Sascha - 2015

economic justification of biofuel promotion instruments and investigates their implications. Based on data from India and …

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Science, Technology, Innovation and IP in India : New Directions and Prospects

Greenhalgh, Christine - 2013

property, innovation and diffusion in emerging countries. It applies this literature to the Indian case. India is a potentially … useful case study for several reasons. India has recently been experiencing rapid growth and has several high technology … poverty and improve agricultural productivity India will need to create jobs in labour intensive production and distribution …

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Monitoring, evaluation and learning for climate risk management

Noltze, Martin - 2021

This working paper focuses on the role of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for promoting effective climate risk management. It aims to introduce a conceptual framework that governments and development co-operation providers can draw on when developing MEL frameworks for their...

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The political economy of development and climate policy-prospects and challenges for an emission trading scheme as development and climate policy tool

Freytag, Andreas; Menter, Matthias; Montag, Jan Hauke; … - 2023

Economic development and climate change constitute two of today's major international policy challenges. While development cooperation has long been on the political agenda, addressing global climate change has gained policymakers' attention more recently. Transfers for financing single projects...

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