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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007

    This report seeks to present micro evidence on how environmental changes affect poor households. It focuses primarily on environmental resources that are outside the private sphere, particularly commonly held and managed resources such as forests, fisheries, and wildlife. The objectives for this volume are three-fold. It is first interested in using an empirical data-driven approach to examine the dependence of the poor on natural resources. The second objective is to examine the role of the environment in determining health outcomes.

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Environmental degradation primarily
    affects the poor, both in rural and urban areas. Reversing
    the downward spiral of this degradation is essential to any
    strategy for reducing poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. This
    study outlines the World Bank's strategy for improving
    its assistance to SSA countries as they move toward
    environmentally sustainable development (ESD). It assesses
    the environmental situation and long-term trends in Africa,

  3. Library Resource
    May, 2014

    This review systematically assesses the
    focus of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on
    environment-related issues. A total of 40 Interim and full
    PRSPs from countries in Africa, Latin America and Eastern
    Europe, the Middle East, Central and East Asia are reviewed.
    Four major questions: are posed: (i) What issues of
    environmental concerns and opportunities are identified in
    the PRSPs?; (ii) To what extent are poverty-environment

  4. Library Resource
    May, 2014

    Country Assistance Strategies (CASs)
    have been periodically reviewed from a variety of different
    perspectives. This review assesses how environment is
    integrated in CASs for 2005 and also compares the progress
    made by 37 countries over the period of 1999-2005. Five
    themes are used to assess the 23 CASs across an established
    methodology also used in previous reviews. The five themes
    are: issues identification, treatment, mainstreaming,

  5. Library Resource
    May, 2014
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    The current assessment builds on
    previously published reviews of poverty reduction strategy
    programs (PRSPs), and is the sixth report in a series. This
    paper aims at presenting a clearer picture of how PRSPs
    influence the developmental agenda in 11 African countries
    by assessing the level of environmental mainstreaming in the
    Poverty Reduction Strategy Process. The paper includes the
    following headings: introduction; framework for assessment;

  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
    June, 2012

    This report seeks to present micro
    evidence on how environmental changes affect poor
    households. It focuses primarily on environmental resources
    that are outside the private sphere, particularly commonly
    held and managed resources such as forests, fisheries, and
    wildlife. The objectives for this volume are three-fold. It
    is first interested in using an empirical data-driven
    approach to examine the dependence of the poor on natural

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Pakistan

    Balochistan offers some of the best
    assets for development. Balochistan is generously bestowed
    with natural and locational resources. It possesses the
    largest land area of any province of Pakistan, proving vast
    rangeland for goats, sheep, buffaloes, cattle, camels and
    other livestock. Its southern border makes up about two
    thirds of the national coastline, giving access to a large
    pool of fishery resources. As a frontier province, it is

  9. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    India

    This study provides estimates of social
    and financial costs of environmental damage in India from
    three pollution damage categories: (i) urban air pollution;
    (ii) inadequate water supply, poor sanitation, and hygiene;
    and (iii) indoor air pollution. It also provides estimates
    based on three natural resource damage categories: (i)
    agricultural damage from soil salinity, water logging, and
    soil erosion; (ii) rangeland degradation; and (iii)

  10. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    South Sudan, Sudan

    South Sudan is a new country of 10.5
    million people that has just emerged from conflict and still
    facing challenges with recovery and development. Although
    economic disparities, political exclusion and deprivation in
    the distribution of political and economic power between the
    northern and southern parts of then united Sudan were often
    tendered as the proximal causes of the conflict, at the
    center of the prolonged civil war was the struggle for

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