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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2015
    Georgia

    During the past decade, Georgia’s
    pursuit of economic reforms led to impressive economic
    growth, capital inflow, and investments. It helped improve
    the business environment and infrastructure, strengthened
    public finances, and liberalized trade. Georgia achieved
    most of the human development targets of the Millennium
    Development Goals (MDGs). This progress did not result,
    however, in improved environmental governance or better

  2. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    Effective environmental and social risk
    management in development policy financing (DPF) is central
    to achieving the World Bank’s goals of ending extreme
    poverty and promoting shared prosperity in a sustainable
    manner. If the World Bank is supporting far-reaching member
    country reforms that are intended to contribute to the twin
    goals, then it should seek to understand the impact of those
    reforms on the poor. It should also ensure that the

  3. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    A rainforest can be modeled as a dynamic
    asset subject to various risks, including risk of fire. Any
    small part of the forest can be in one of two states: either
    untouched by forest fire, or already damaged by fire, in
    which case there is both a local forest loss and increased
    dryness over a broader area. In this paper, two Bellman
    equations are constructed, one for unharmed forest and a
    second for already burnt forest. The analysis solves the two

  4. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Global

    The World Bank Group was a principal founding partner of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in its pilot phase in 1991, and of the restructured GEF in 1994. The Bank plays three different roles in the GEF: (a) as trustee of the GEF and related trust funds, (b) as implementing agency, including the implementation of private-sector GEF projects by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and (c) as the host organization of the functionally independent GEF secretariat.

  5. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Global

    This issue includes the following
    headings: Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in
    Bangladesh; Natural Disasters and Household Well-Being; Road
    Improvement and Deforestation, Pathways toward Zero-Carbon
    Electricity; The Need for Broader Information in Climate
    Change Assessment; Effectiveness of Protected Areas; and
    Vulnerability to Malnutrition in the West African Sahel

  6. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Mauritius

    Mauritius has been a success story since
    independence, moving from low income to uppermiddle-income
    status. Close public-private partnerships facilitated
    private sector-led growth in astable macroeconomic and
    institutional environment. The government implemented an
    activeindustrial policy to support private sector
    competitiveness while exploiting global trade nichescreated
    by preferential access arrangements. As a result, savings

  7. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Colombia

    Colombia has made impressive strides in
    reducing poverty and promoting shared prosperity during the
    last decade. Extreme poverty fell from 17.7 percent in 2002
    to 8.1 percent in 2014, while total poverty (including
    moderate poverty) fell from 49.7 percent in 2002 to 29.5
    percent in 2014. The decline implies that 6.2 million people
    left poverty in the period. The multidimensional poverty
    rate, which takes into account education, health, labor,

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Madagascar

    The major role tropical forests play in
    biodiversity and climate change has led the world to search
    for effective ways to slow down deforestation. Community
    forest management (CFM) is an example of the broader concept
    of community-based natural resources management (CBNRM). As
    part of the decentralization policy in many countries,
    mainly in Africa and Asia, CFM was expected to promote: (i)
    a more effective stewardship of the resources by involving

  9. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Global

    This paper conducts an integrated
    assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation
    on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in
    low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the
    partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to
    2080. The findings show that climate change effects on the
    agricultural sector will increase progressively over the
    century. By 2030, the impact of climate change on food

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2015
    Costa Rica

    Costa Rica stands out for being among the most politically stable, progressive, prosperous, and environmentally conscious nations in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Its development model has brought important economic, social, and environmental dividends, with sustained growth, upward mobility for a large share of the population, important gains in social indicators, and significant achievements in reforestation and conservation. However, there are a number of development challenges that need to be addressed to maintain the country’s successful development path.

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