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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2012
    Global, Asia

    This manual helps interested parties to understand and address corruption risks associated with forest carbon accounting – particularly REDD+ – programmes and strategies at the national level. Users will learn how to identify corruption risks and instruments to help address these risks within the development of national Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) action plans and strategies, and the implementation of REDD+ and other forest carbon projects. The manual’s scope does not extend to corruption risks at the international level.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Sri Lanka, Western Africa, Global

    Urban land-cover change threatens biodiversity and affects ecosystem productivity through loss of habitat, biomass, and carbon storage. However, despite projections that world urban populations will increase to nearly 5 billion by 2030, little is known about future locations, magnitudes, and rates of urban expansion. Here we develop spatially explicit probabilistic forecasts of global urban land-cover change and explore the direct impacts on biodiversity hotspots and tropical carbon biomass.

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    In line with one of the major themes in
    the Bank's Environment Strategy, this 2005 annual
    review is devoted to the theme of environmental health.
    Viewpoint articles in this edition reflect several external
    perspectives: the World Health Organization (WHO) lays out
    the panorama of environmental risk factors; a successful
    example of combating urban air pollution is provided by the
    former mayor of Bogotá; successful strategies to enhance

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    The developing world has made remarkable
    progress. The number of people living in extreme poverty on
    less than $1 a day has fallen by about 400 million in the
    last 25 years. Many more children, particularly girls, are
    completing primary school. Illiteracy rates have fallen by
    half in 30 years. And life expectancy is nearly 15 years
    longer, on average, than it was 40 years ago. The demand for
    statistics to measure progress and demonstrate the

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    This year the preliminary results of the
    international comparison program are being released,
    providing new comparisons of price levels for more than 140
    countries. The program, the largest single data collection
    effort ever undertaken, is a salutary example of what can be
    accomplished through global partnership, technical
    innovation, and systematic attention to building local
    statistical capacity. Along with censuses, surveys are a

  6. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Global

    The global monitoring report 2008 comes
    at an important time. This year marks the halfway point in
    the effort to achieve the millennium development goals
    (MDGs) by 2015. This is also an important year to work
    toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond to
    the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation
    laid at the conference in Bali in December 2007.
    Successfully meeting this challenge will be essential for

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    This evaluation is the first of a series
    that seeks lessons from the World Bank Group's
    experience on how to carve out a sustainable growth path.
    The World Bank Group has never had an explicit corporate
    strategy on climate change against which evaluative
    assessments could be made. However, a premise of this
    evaluation series is that many of the climate-oriented
    policies and investments under discussion have close

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    The price of oil could play a
    significant role in influencing the expansion of biofuels.
    However, this issue has not been fully investigated yet in
    the literature. Using a global computable general
    equilibrium model, this study analyzes the impact of oil
    price on biofuel expansion, and subsequently, on food
    supply. The study shows that a 65 percent increase in oil
    price in 2020 from the 2009 level would increase the global

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    World Development Indicators (WDI) 2009
    arrives at a moment of great uncertainty for the global
    economy. The crisis that began more than a year ago in the
    U.S. housing market spread to the global financial system
    and is now taking its toll on real output and incomes. As a
    consequence, an additional 50 million people will be left in
    extreme poverty. And if the crisis deepens and widens or is
    prolonged, other development indicators, school enrollments,

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Global

    This strategy for making development
    Climate-Resilient in Sub-Saharan Africa is the World
    Bank's operational response to climate variability and
    change on the continent. Grounded in a climate risk review
    of the Africa Region's sustainable development
    portfolio, it adds the climate change dimension to the
    Region's development strategy and business plan, the
    Africa Action Plan (AAP, 2009-2012), and will be an integral

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