Documents et rapports
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Bridging Conflicts and Biodiversity Protection : The Critical Role of Reliable and Comparable Data (anglais)
Biodiversity is essential for ecological stability, human well-being, and economic progress, providing critical ecosystem services such as clean water, food, and climate regulation. However, it faces unprecedented...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11076 Date du document: 27 février 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blankespoor, Brian,Dasgupta, Susmita,Wheeler,David
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Fishing and Climate Change in Coastal Bangladesh : The Economic and Health Impacts of Increasing Salinity (anglais)
The composition of flora and fauna in low-lying coastal regions worldwide is being altered by sea-level rise in a changing climate, favoring saline-tolerant species. These shifts are projected to have...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11048 Date du document: 27 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blankespoor, Brian,Dasgupta, Susmita,Huq, Mainul,Khan,Zahirul Huque,Mustafa,Md. Golam,Wheeler,David
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Implementing 30x30 : Lessons from Country Case Studies (anglais)
The publication of nearly 600,000 new species occurrence maps using Global Biodiversity Information Facility data provides an opportunity to reassess international species protection with broader representation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11045 Date du document: 24 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Blankespoor, Brian,Wheeler,David
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Estimating Extinction Threats with Species Occurrence Data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (anglais)
The world is experiencing a severe loss of biodiversity, highlighting the need for a strong global conservation strategy. Effective conservation depends on accurate information about where endangered species...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10822 Date du document: 25 juin 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Blankespoor, Brian,Wheeler,David
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Is environmentally-friendly agriculture less profitable for farmers ? evidence on integrated pest management in Bangladesh (anglais)
Concerns about the sustainability of conventional agriculture have prompted widespread introduction of integrated pest management (IPM), an ecologically-based approach to control of harmful insects and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3417 Date du document: 1 septembre 2004 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig,Wheeler,David
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Measuring up - new directions for environmental programs at the World Bank (anglais)
The World Bank's new environment strategy advocates cost-effective reduction of air and water pollutants that are most harmful to human health. In addition, it addresses threats to the livelihood of over...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3097 Date du document: 31 juillet 2003 Auteur: Buys, Piet,Dasgupta, Susmita,Meisner, Craig,Pand
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The poverty/environment nexus in Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic (anglais)
Environmental degradation can inflict serious damage on poor people because their livelihoods often depend on natural resource use and their living conditions may offer little protection from air, water...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2960 Date du document: 31 janvier 2003 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Deichmann, Uwe,Meisner, Craig
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Policy reform, economic growth, and the digital divide - an econometric analysis (anglais)
Rapid growth of Internet use in high-income economies, has raised the specter of a "digital divide" that will marginalize developing countries, because they can neither afford Internet access, nor use...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2567 Date du document: 31 mars 2001 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Lall, Somik,Wheeler,David R.
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Industrial environmental performance in China - the impact of inspections (anglais)
Little empirical research has been done on monitoring and enforcement issues in environmental economics, especially to analyze the impact of monitoring and enforcement on polluters' environmental performance...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2285 Date du document: 29 février 2000 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Laplante, Benoit,Namingi, Nlan
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Small manufacturing plants, pollution, and poverty : new evidence from Brazil and Mexico (anglais)
The authors use new data from Brazil and Mexico to analyze relationships linking economic development, the size distribution of manufacturing plants, and exposure to industrial pollution. For lack of data...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2029 Date du document: 31 décembre 1998 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Lucas, Robert E. B.,Wheeler,Da
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Accounting for toxicity risks in pollution control : does it matter? (anglais)
The accounting and public release of information about industrial toxic pollution emissions is meeting increasing criticism in that these listings typically do not account for the different toxicity risks...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2002 Date du document: 30 novembre 1998 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Laplante, Benoit,Meisner, Crai
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Capital markets responses to environmental performance in developing countries (anglais)
Firms in developing countries are often said to have no incentives to invest in pollution control because they typically face weak monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulations. But the inability...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1909 Date du document: 30 avril 1998 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Laplante, Benoit,Mamingi, Nlan
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What improves environmental performance? evidence from Mexican industry (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)
Using new survey evidence, the authors analyze the effects of regulation, plant-level management policies, and plant and firm characteristics on environmental performance in Mexican factories. They focus...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1877 Date du document: 31 janvier 1998 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Hettige, Hemamala,Wheeler,Davi
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Surviving success : policy reform and the future of industrial pollution in China (anglais)
China's recent industrial growth, a remarkable success story, has been clouded by hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and incidents of serious respiratory illness caused by exposure to industrial...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1856 Date du document: 30 novembre 1997 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Wang,Hua,Wheeler,David R.
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Bending the rules : discretionary pollution control in China (anglais)
Industry compliance with pollution regulations is far from universal, even in North America. In developing countries, compliance rates are often quite low, particularly where budgets for regulation are...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1761 Date du document: 31 mai 1997 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Huq, Mainul,Wheeler,David R.
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Citizen complaints as environmental indicators : evidence from China (anglais)
The complaints process in China provides useful information and helps encourage community participation in environmental policy. But it also directs a big share of inspection resources to areas where people...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1704 Date du document: 31 janvier 1997 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Wheeler,David R.
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Japanese multinationals in Asia : capabilities and motivations (anglais)
Using a specially designed survey, the authors identify the characteristics of Japanese firms likely to invest world wide and in key Asian countries and country characteristics associated with Japanese...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1634 Date du document: 31 août 1996 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Mody, Ashoka,Sinha, Sarbajit
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Water pollution abatement by Chinese industry : cost estimates and policy implications (anglais)
Using factory-level data provided by China's National Environmental Protection Agency and the Tianjin Environmental Protection Bureau, the authors of this report estimate the costs of water pollution abatement...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1630 Date du document: 31 août 1996 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Huq, Minul,Wheeler,David R.,Ch
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The cross-section of stock returns : evidence from emerging markets (anglais)
Cross-sectional tests of asset returns have a long tradition in finance. The often-used capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the arbitrage pricing theory both imply cross-sectional relationships between...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1505 Date du document: 30 septembre 1995 Auteur: Claessens,Constantijn A.,Dasgupta, Susmita,Glen,
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Environmental regulation and development : a cross-country empirical analysis (anglais)
The authors develop comparative indices of environmental policy and performance for 31 countries using a quantified analysis of reports prepared for the United Nations Conference on Environmental and Development...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1448 Date du document: 30 avril 1995 Auteur: Dasgupta, Susmita,Mody, Ashoka,Roy, Subhendu,Whe