This guidance note helps World Bank teams answer 6 key questions to help prepare a country’s blue public expenditure review (PER), a valuable tool for countries on their journey to a sustainable blue economy:...
Environmental conditional cash transfers, or "payments for ecosystem services" are a centerpiece of global efforts to protect biodiversity, safeguard watersheds, and mitigate climate change by reducing...
A cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating a Payments for Environmental Services (PES) conservation program in Uganda that ran from 2011 to 2013 found that the program reduced deforestation from...
There have been few efforts to evaluate whether the positive land use changes induced by conservation interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services (PES) persist once the interventions end...
Use of conditional cash transfers has become widespread in development policy given their success in boosting health and education outcomes. Recently, conditional cash transfers are being used to promote...
The effectiveness of conservation interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services (PES) is often evaluated, if it is evaluated at all, only at the completion of the intervention. Since gains...
The growing use of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) for conservation has fostered a debate on its effectiveness, but the few efforts to date to assess the impact of PES programs have been hampered...
Since 2006, there has been an explosion of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal, state, and municipal levels. Even in this short...
Since 2006, there has been an explosion of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal, state, and municipal levels. Even in this short...
Depuis 2006, il ya eu une explosion de programmes de Paiements pour Services Environnementaux (PSE) au Brésil, ainsi que des efforts pour adopter des lois PSE au niveau fédéral, des états, et des municipalités...
Since 2006, there has been an explosion of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal, state, and municipal levels. Even in this short...
Since 2006, there has been an explosion of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal, state, and municipal levels. Even in this short...
Climate change is at the top of the development agenda in Central America. This region, together with the Caribbean, is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change in Latin America. Climate change...
Climate change is at the top of the development agenda in Central America. This region, together with the Caribbean, is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change in Latin America. Climate change...
This issue of the World Bank research observer contains the following articles: the odds of achieving the MDGs; the challenges of bankruptcy reform; school feeding programs and development: are we framing...
As the use of payments for environmental services (PES) programs for conservation has grown in developing countries, the use of stated preference methods, particularly contingent valuation (CV) surveys...
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are one of the instruments that countries might use to try to reduce deforestation, and hence receive payments for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest...
It has often been assumed that payments for watershed services (PWS) would go mostly to poor land users, thus contributing to poverty reduction, but there has been little empirical verification to date...
This paper uses data from Guatemala to map areas that are important for the provision of indirect ecosystem services, services whose benefits are enjoyed at some distance from the ecosystem that provides...
This paper seeks to clarify how valuation should be conducted to answer specific environmental policy questions. In particular, it looks at how valuation should be used to examine four distinct aspects...