Corporate responsibility
- Dhaka: Improving living conditions for the urban poor
- World Bank, 2006
- The demand for workers and services in the growing industries of Dhaka has prompted large scale migration from rural areas for better opportunities. The migrants contribute to the city’s economic deve...
- Quantifying Carbon and distributional benefits of solar home system programs in Bangladesh
- World Bank, 2011
- Scaling-up adoption of renewable energy technology, such as solar home systems, to expand electricity access in developing countries can accelerate the transition to low-carbon economic development. U...
- Gender Implications of Biofuels Expansion in Africa: the case of Mozambique
- C. Arndt / World Bank, 2012
- This study uses a gendered dynamic CGE model to assess the implications of biofuels expansion in a low-income, land-abundant setting. It compares scenarios with different gender employment intensities...
- Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: progress and remaining challenges
- T Vishwanath / World Bank, 2012
- The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has made impressive strides in reducing gender gaps in human development. The ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education is 0.96, women in...
- Does Female Reservation Affect Long-term Political Outcomes? Evidence from rural India
- K Deininger / World Bank, 2012
- Although many studies have explored the impacts of political quotas for females, often with ambiguous results, the underlying mechanisms and long-term effects have received little attention. This pape...
- Helping to better manage the world's oceans
- World Bank, 2012
- This brief published by The World Bank presents the sectoral results for sustainable ocean ecosystem management and the Bank's role in the creation of the Global Partnership for Oceans. It highlights ...
- Food prices, nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals
- World Bank, 2012
- This report highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices. It notes that in 2007-2008 and again in 2011, spikes in food prices ...
- Social Implications of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
- D. Verner / World Bank, 2011
- More than a global environmental issue, climate change is also a threat to poverty reduction and economic growth and may unravel many of the development gains made in recent decades. Latin America and...
- Bio Carbon Fund Experience: Insights from Aforrestation and Reforestation Clean Development Mechanism Projects
- World Bank, 2011
- The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is one of the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol intended to reduce the concentration...
- Development and climate action: reinforcing synergies
- World Bank, 2012
- The World Bank has published a six-page brief detailing the Bank's contribution to achieving synergies between development finance and climate change mitigation and adaptation. The brief explains that...
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