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Improving aid effectiveness and implementing GEF-5 reforms
Below I am attaching an abridged version of President Obama’s speech at the United Nations yesterday, during the occasion of the MDGs Summit. I also append a couple of paragraphs from a World Bank blog posting submitted by Axel van Trotsenburg (Vice President for Concessional Finance and Global…
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Can conservation cut poverty?
A commentary in Nature last week redirects the spotlight to a central question for the environment and development agendas: can efforts to conserve biodiversity also benefit the poor?
There is growing social and ecological evidence suggesting that a large number of opportunities exist globally for…
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