How Has Environment Mattered An Analysis Of World Bank Resource Allocation
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How Has Environment Mattered
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2004
How Has Environment Mattered written by and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Environmental policy categories.
How has environment mattered for the World Bank? The aggregate figures suggest that it has mattered a great deal, since the Bank's total environmental lending has exceeded $US 9 billion over the past six years. In this paper the authors use newly available data to address a more precise version of the question: Across countries and themes, how well has the Bank's environmental lending and analytical and advisory activities (AAA) matched the incidence of environmental problems? For their assessment, the authors extend their previous work on local pollution and fragile lands (Buys and others 2003) to consideration of global emissions, biodiversity, water resources, and institutional development. They construct cross-country problem indicators for each environmental theme and combine them with country risk measures to estimate optimal thematic lending and AAA for each country. The authors then compare their estimates with actual lending and AAA to assess the match between environmental problems and the Bank's response. The authors begin by constructing an overall indicator of environmental problems from their thematic indicators. Using regression analysis, they find a strong relationship between countries' general indicator values and the scale of their environmental borrowing, but a relatively weak relationship for AAA. At the thematic level, the authors find that problem indicators have relatively weak relationships with both lending and AAA. Adding country risk to the analysis, they test an optimal allocation model and find that it is consistent with the Bank's actual lending and AAA since 1998. The authors conclude that their model's assignment of lending and AAA to countries reflects the Bank's actual experience with partner countries. The model's explanatory power is relatively low, however, and when they compare model assignments to actual allocations, the authors find many large discrepancies for countries and environmental themes. Some gaps may reflect activity by other donor institutions, but many others may represent problems with efficient implementation of the Bank's Environment Strategy. To promote further discussion of this issue, the authors use their optimal allocation model to develop measures of lending opportunity by environmental theme for the Bank's partner countries. This paper--a joint product of the Environment Department and Infrastructure and Environment, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort to implement the world Bank's new environment strategy.
How Has Environment Mattered An Analysis Of World Bank Resource Allocation
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Author : Piet Buys
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
How Has Environment Mattered An Analysis Of World Bank Resource Allocation written by Piet Buys and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
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How Has Environment Mattered An Analysis Of World Bank Resource Allocation
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Author : Anjali Acharya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
How Has Environment Mattered An Analysis Of World Bank Resource Allocation written by Anjali Acharya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
How has environment mattered for the World Bank? The aggregate figures suggest that it has mattered a great deal, since the Bank's total environmental lending has exceeded $US 9 billion over the past six years. In this paper the authors use newly available data to address a more precise version of the question: Across countries and themes, how well has the Bank's environmental lending and analytical and advisory activities (AAA) matched the incidence of environmental problems? For their assessment, the authors extend their previous work on local pollution and fragile lands (Buys and others 2003) to consideration of global emissions, biodiversity, water resources, and institutional development. They construct cross-country problem indicators for each environmental theme and combine them with country risk measures to estimate optimal thematic lending and AAA for each country. The authors then compare their estimates with actual lending and AAA to assess the match between environmental problems and the Bank's response. The authors begin by constructing an overall indicator of environmental problems from their thematic indicators. Using regression analysis, they find a strong relationship between countries' general indicator values and the scale of their environmental borrowing, but a relatively weak relationship for AAA. At the thematic level, the authors find that problem indicators have relatively weak relationships with both lending and AAA. Adding country risk to the analysis, they test an optimal allocation model and find that it is consistent with the Bank's actual lending and AAA since 1998. The authors conclude that their model's assignment of lending and AAA to countries reflects the Bank's actual experience with partner countries. The model's explanatory power is relatively low, however, and when they compare model assignments to actual allocations, the authors find many large discrepancies for countries and environmental themes. Some gaps may reflect activity by other donor institutions, but many others may represent problems with efficient implementation of the Bank's Environment Strategy. To promote further discussion of this issue, the authors use their optimal allocation model to develop measures of lending opportunity by environmental theme for the Bank's partner countries.
Sustainable Development Concepts
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Author : John Pezzey
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 1992
Sustainable Development Concepts written by John Pezzey and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
Concepts; The growing recognition of sustainable development as a policy goal; Purpose of this paper; Methodology used; Structure of the paper; Some issues to be addressed; Measuring the economy and the environment; Definitions of growth, development, and sustainability concepts; Optimal control and sustainability; Applications; Economic growth and the environment - balancing consumption and clean-up expenditure; Non-renewable resources I: sustainability and the discount rate; Non-renewable resource II: sustainability and environmental dependence combined; Non-renewable resources III: the role of investment, and technological limits to growth; Renewable resources: poverty, survival, and outside assistance; Income distribution and sustainable development; Are discount rates too high? Information and uncertainty; Operationality: putting the ideas into practice; Conclusions and suggestions for further work.
Inclusive Green Growth
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Author : World Bank
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Inclusive Green Growth written by World Bank and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Inclusive Green Growth: The Pathway to Sustainable Development makes the case that greening growth is necessary, efficient, and affordable. Yet spurring growth without ensuring equity will thwart efforts to reduce poverty and improve access to health, education, and infrastructure services.
The World Bank And The Environment
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Author : World Bank Staff
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 1997-01-01
The World Bank And The Environment written by World Bank Staff and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Political Science categories.
This publication contains the annual review for fiscal 1996 (July 1995-June 1996) and a 10-year accounting of the project portfolio in a project matrix (Appendix). The annual review portion of the publication is divided into four sections:an overview, a series of regional review, a set of reviews on a spectrum of environmental and social issues, and a brief scan of relevant publications. The environmental and social issues discussed include:biodiversity conservation; fostering global warming solutions through energy efficiency, demand side management and renewable technologies; linking physical environmental effects to economic impacts; legal aspects of environmental management; building strategic alliance to avoid duplicating efforts in environmental work; Bank's work on pollution management and technology policy; engaging private sector into environmental investments; enhancing participatory approaches in decisionmaking; and freshwater, coastal and marine resource management. In addition, a new column called Reflection sets the context for the Bank's work in the larger global agenda drawn up in Rio's Agenda 21 in 1992.
The World Bank Research Program 2005 2007
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2008
The World Bank Research Program 2005 2007 written by and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
This pocket-sized reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries includes key indicators on agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation. The volume helps establish a sound base of information to help set priorities and measure progress toward environmental sustainability goals.
Oecd Environmental Outlook To 2030
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Author : OECD
language : en
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Release Date : 2008-03-05
Oecd Environmental Outlook To 2030 written by OECD and has been published by OECD Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-05 with categories.
The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 provides analyses of economic and environmental trends to 2030, and simulations of policy actions to address the key challenges.
Shock Waves
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Author : Stephane Hallegatte
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2015-11-23
Shock Waves written by Stephane Hallegatte and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.
Managers Of Global Change
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Author : Lydia Andler
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2009
Managers Of Global Change written by Lydia Andler and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
This title is an examination of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies in global environmental governance. After a discussion of theoretical context, reaserch design, and empiral methodology, the book presents nine in-depth case studies of bureaucracies.