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Environment. The world has water problems. This book has solutions. The Last Drop tackles global water problems and explores how humans can better manage the precious resource. By Alka Tripathy ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Environment Nature can provide the foundation for inclusive growth, food security, poverty reduction, and human wellbeing. The World Bank Group supports countries to sustainably manage natural resources to create jobs, improve food security, decrease pollution, and increase resilience to climate change.
Environment Nature can provide the foundation for inclusive growth, food security, poverty reduction, and human wellbeing. The World Bank Group supports countries to sustainably manage natural resources to create jobs, improve food security, decrease pollution, and increase resilience to climate change.
The changing world environment with political polarities Trade and GVCs, which were often the drivers for FDI, are reshaping and adjusting to new political and economic realities. The current global economic landscape demands the development of coordinated, non-fiscally taxing solutions to strengthen countries’ investment climate and develop resilient for future shocks.
Mar 28, 2024 · Household and outdoor air pollution have the most detrimental effect on health, leading to nearly 55 percent of premature deaths, which alone cost 8.32 percent of GDP in 2019. “For Bangladesh, addressing environmental risks is both a development and an economic priority. We have seen around the world that when economic growth comes at the ...
Apr 1, 2024 · Macroeconomics is the branch of economics that deals with the overall functioning of the economy. Macroeconomic policies have a critical influence on the decisions of households and firms to spend, save, hire and invest. And the conditions they foster set the stage for economic growth and development. The World Bank Group’s macroeconomists work toward the institution's primary goals of reducing poverty and ensuring shared prosperity by encouraging countries to enact stabilizing, effective ...
The Global Wildlife Program (GWP), supported by the Global Environment Facility and led by the World Bank, is one of the largest global partnerships created to conserve wildlife. With projects in 31 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, it is a collaborative program that is working across supply chains and transboundary landscapes to combat illegal wildlife trade, mitigate human-wildlife conflict, and develop wildlife-based economies and livelihoods.
Sep 1, 2022 · SLCPs are far more potent climate warmers than carbon dioxide. Methane is a precursor of ground-level ozone, which according to the Climate and Clean air Coalition and Stockholm Environment Institute, kills about a million people each year, and is 80 times more potent at warming the planet than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.
The Environment Matters series was created as a review on the environment by the World Bank Group. Most editions highlight the environmental research, accomplishments, and challenges of the Bank’s regions in the previous year. The 2012 special edition, after a hiatus, took a retrospective look at the World Bank Group's environmental efforts ...
The World Bank Group's Environment Strategy 2012-2022 lays out an ambitious agenda to support "green, clean, resilient" paths for developing countries, as they pursue poverty reduction and development in an increasingly fragile environment. The Environment Strategy, which covers the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC), and ...
