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    Benchmarking Study

    Training Resources & Tools
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Romania, Europe, Central Asia

    This report is about Romanis's Green growth benchmarking, which is a country-level diagnostic that helps define a country’s strengths and vulnerabilities in adopting a path to greener growth. The process of defining a country’s green growth path starts with an analysis aimed at mapping the country’s current position on a multi-dimensional green-growth chart, with each dimension defined by an indicator of green growth.

  2. Library Resource

    A Public-Private Partnerships Journal

    Reports & Research
    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2015

    The latest issue of Handshake, focused on public-private partnerships in the Innovation. “An age of constant invention naturally begets one of constant failure,”the New York Times Magazine declared in a recent story called “Welcometo the Failure Age.” Its core premise—that innovation is inextricably linked with failure—may be a fresh insight for the high-tech era, but has long been understood by those who work in infrastructure. To state the obvious:for those of us in infrastructure PPPs, failure is not a novel concept.Innovation is.

  3. Library Resource

    Focus on China and Africa

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2015
    China, Africa, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This study briefly summarizes the development experiences of special economic zones in China and Africa, the lessons that Africa can learn from China, and the preliminary results of the Chinese investments in special economic zones in Africa. The study makes recommendations on how to unleash the power of special economic zones and industrial zones in Africa through strategically leveraging the Chinese experiences.

  4. Library Resource

    Inputs for an Agenda and Strategy

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    May, 2015
    Brazil

    In less than fifty years, Brazil evolved from a predominantly rural society and economy to a highly urbanized country in which 85 percent of its people now live in urban areas and more than 90 percent of the country’s GDP is generated in the cities. This rapid urbanization process was characterized by a lack of planning and an enduring framework of inequality, resulting in high degrees of concentrated poverty in the urban areas. Much of this urbanization has taken place in metropolitan regions (MRs).

  5. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Bolivia

    Bolivia’s distinct characteristics and
    aspirations are a key for understanding its development
    trajectory. Bolivia is one of the countries with the highest
    share of indigenous population, representing a tapestry of
    different groups with different historical, cultural and
    economic features, with a significant influence in policy
    decision making. The country is landlocked and one of the
    most sparsely populated in the world. As a result, long

  6. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Bolivia

    This note is a summary of a report that
    considers urban areas as the complement to rural areas that
    will allow the Plurinational State of Bolivia to achieve the
    goals set forth in its Patriotic Agenda for the Bicentennial
    2025. The report uses data available at the national level
    from censuses and household surveys from the National
    Statistics Institute (INE) and the Social and Economic
    Policy Analysis Unit of the Ministry of Development Planning

  7. Library Resource
    December, 2015

    This paper identifies the low-elevation
    coastal zone populations and developing regions most
    vulnerable to sea-level rise and other coastal hazards, such
    as storm surges, coastal erosion, and salt-water intrusion.
    The focus is on the rural poor in the low-elevation coastal
    zone, as their economic livelihoods are especially
    endangered directly by coastal hazards and indirectly
    through the impacts of climate change on key coastal and

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Ethiopia

    Cities are vulnerable to many types of
    shocks and stresses, including natural hazards like storms
    and sea level rise, but also man-made ones like economic
    transformation and rapid urbanization. These shocks and
    stresses have the potential to bring cities to a halt and
    reverse years of socio-economic development gains. Cities
    that are to grow and thrive in the future must take steps to
    address these shocks and stresses. Simply put, a resilient

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2015
    Africa, Western Africa

    Land and property rights, migration, and
    citizenship are complex issues that cut across all social,
    economic, and political spheres of West Africa. This paper
    provides an overarching scoping of the most pressing
    contemporary issues related to land, migration, and
    citizenship, including how they intersect in various
    contexts and locations in West Africa. The way issues are
    analytically framed captures structural challenges and sets

  10. Library Resource
    September, 2015
    Brazil

    This report on the assessment of land
    governance in Brazil summarizes and discusses the results of
    a series of standardized self-assessments of the land
    governance situation in Brazil, conducted entirely by
    Brazilian speakers. Therefore, these findings represent the
    perception of local experts based on their experience of
    news and data available. The main aim of this report are
    federal and state authorities directly involved in land

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