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  1. Library Resource
    December, 2014

    The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
    (MEA), The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity study
    (TEEB) and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity
    and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provide a comprehensive and
    useful framework to understand human dependence on ecosystem
    services and how best to protect these services in
    perpetuity. In these three authoritative studies, payment
    for ecosystem services (PES) is listed as one of the

  2. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Croatia

    Croatia, the newest member-state of the
    European Union (EU), undertook significant justice reforms
    during the last decade. Many were part of its
    justice-related EU accession process, including the
    enactment and implementation of new laws and amendment of
    others, improved case management and enforcement and
    computerization of land registers. Benchmarking
    Croatia's justice sector indicates that it compares

  3. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Thailand

    This economy profile for Doing Business
    2015 presents the 11 Doing Business indicators for Thailand.
    To allow for useful comparison, the profile also provides
    data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for
    each indicator. Doing Business 2015 is the 12th edition in a
    series of annual reports measuring the regulations that
    enhance business activity and those that constrain it.
    Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business; for

  4. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Uganda

    This economy profile for Doing Business
    2015 presents the 11 Doing Business indicators for Uganda.
    To allow for useful comparison, the profile also provides
    data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for
    each indicator. Doing Business 2015 is the 12th edition in a
    series of annual reports measuring the regulations that
    enhance business activity and those that constrain it.
    Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business; for

  5. Library Resource
    December, 2014

    Information on ecosystem characteristics
    as well as economic statistics is needed to more fully
    inform decision makers on the impacts of climate change on
    human well-being. Climate change risks involve potentially
    large and irreversible as well as highly uncertain impacts
    that need to be evaluated with information that complements
    cost-benefit analysis. Information on the irreversibility of
    impacts also is relevant for evaluating implications for

  6. Library Resource
    December, 2014

    According to global spatial data sets in
    2000 more than one-third of the rural population in
    developing countries was located on less favored
    agricultural land and areas. Less favored agricultural lands
    are susceptible to low productivity and degradation, because
    their agricultural potential is constrained biophysically by
    terrain, poor soil quality, or limited rainfall. Less
    favored agricultural areas include less favored agricultural

  7. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Is Africa's rural economy
    transforming as its economies grow? This paper uses
    comparable income aggregates from 41 national household
    surveys from 22 countries to explore the extent of income
    diversification among rural households in Sub-Saharan
    Africa, and to look at how income diversification in
    Sub-Saharan Africa compares with other regions, taking into
    account differences in levels of development. The paper also

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This paper uses the recently collected
    Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on
    Agriculture Initiative data sets from five countries in
    Sub-Saharan Africa to provide a comprehensive overview of
    land and labor market participation by agrarian households
    and to formally test for failures in factor markets. Under
    complete and competitive markets, households can solve their
    consumption and production problems separately, so that

  9. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Ghana

    This report is the most recent in a
    series aimed at monitoring economic developments in Ghana
    and has two sections. The first section summarizes the
    recent macroeconomic developments in the country while the
    second section presents the main findings on poverty and
    employment published recently by the Ghana statistical
    service. Ghana s overall macroeconomic conditions have
    deteriorated further in 2014 with large twin-deficits

  10. Library Resource
    December, 2014

    This Handbook is intended to be a
    practical guide to help companies in the construction
    industry develop and implement an environmental and social
    management system, which should help to improve overall
    operations. In the current economic climate, companies are
    under pressure to perform or even just survive. New
    initiatives are often met with resistance as people struggle
    to keep up with their day-to-day responsibilities. Some

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