Environmental Economics at the World Bank
Environmental Economics at the World Bank
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DOI:
10.1093/reep/rem025
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发表时间:
2008-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
S. Dasgupta;K. Hamilton;S. Pagiola;D. Wheeler
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作者:
S. Dasgupta;K. Hamilton;S. Pagiola;D. Wheeler
The World Bank plays a critical role in promoting economic development in cooperation with governments, NGOs, universities, think tanks, and other development institutions. Environmental economics entered the intellectual mainstream at the World Bank in 1992, the year in which “Development and the Environment” was published in the Bank's flagship World Development Report series. Since 1992, environmental economics has exerted a modest but increasing influence on the World Bank's research, lending, technical assistance, and policy dialogue with developing countries. The Bank has made significant investments in the development of green macro-accounting, environmental valuation for project assessment, innovative environmental policy reforms, and internal budgetary systems for the allocation of environmental lending and technical assistance. It has also supported a broad research program that has applied the techniques and insights of environmental economics to the full spectrum of environmental problems in developing countries. In the process, the Bank's lending and technical assistance have begun the transition from rhetorical to practical support for sustainable development.