This paper has two goals - to motivate policy makers in developed and emerging economies to pay more attention to illegal logging, fishing, and wildlife trade, and to provide a road map to address the ...

Countries in Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia (ECA) are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, ...

However, job creation has not kept pace, resulting in persistently high urban unemployment rates. Based on basic job search ...

The Performance-Based Financing (PBF) program in Sierra Leone's Free Education Project aimed to improve primary education by ...

The success of climate adaptation and mitigation often depends on support from local communities. Yet, it remains unclear what strategies are most effective to inform and activate support for climate ...

The purpose of the CPPI is to help identify opportunities to improve a terminal or a port that will ultimately benefit all public and private stakeholders. The CPPI is intended to serve as a benchmark ...

According to the June 2013 global economic prospects, the global economic environment remains fragile, although the balance of risks is now less skewed to the downside than it has been in recent ...

The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to level the playing field by applying the same carbon price faced by domestic producers under the Emission Trading System to the emissions ...

This is the fourth edition of the Uganda Economic Update series. As with previous editions, this update first provides ...

Health budget allocation and execution are critical to ensuring that health systems function effectively, equitably, and ...