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• As the World Burns: A Critique of the World Bank Group's Energy Strategy

  As the World Burns: A Critique of the World Bank Group's Energy Strategy

  This article appeared in late 2013, and the World Bank Group has made progress in adopting some of the article's recommendations, namely commitments to end financing of coal power...

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• The Multilateral Develoment Banks, Environmental Policy, and the United States

  The Multilateral Develoment Banks, Environmental Policy, and the United States

  This was the lead article in the "Special Issue: Environmental Law and Policy in Developing Countries" of the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall Law School Ecology Law...

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• The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform

  The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform

  In 1987 the World Bank made sweeping commitments to environmental reform, but deep seated institutional problems made real progress difficult.

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• foreign assistance
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• forestry
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• Founex Meeting (United Nations)
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• Government Accountability Office U.S. (GAO)
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• Governors (of MDBs)
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• grasslands
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• greenhouse gas (GHG)
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• Green Revolution
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• greenspeak
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• groundnuts
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• Guinea
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• Gujarat
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• Guyana
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• hard loans (MDBs)
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• Harsud (India)
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• Heller Dr. Thomas
• Heller Dr. Thomas
• herbicides
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• Hermes Guarantee
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• HFC-23
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• HFC-23 abatement projects
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• HFC-23 offsets
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• HFC 22
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• HFC 22 factories
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• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
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• House Banking Committee Subcommittee on International Development Institutions
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• House Foreign Affairs Committee (U.S.)
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• House Subcommittee on Agriculture
• House Subcommittee on Agriculture
• Human Development Report (UNDP)
• Human Development Report (UNDP)
• human rights
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• hydroelectric projects
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• hydropower GHG emissions
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• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
• incentives
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• inclusive green growth
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• Independent Evaluation Group IEG World Bank
• Independent Evaluation Group IEG World Bank
• India
• India
• India Coal Fired Generation Rehabilitation Project (World Bank)
• India Coal Fired Generation Rehabilitation Project (World Bank)
• India Department of Environment and Forests
• India Department of Environment and Forests
• Indian reserves
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• indigenous peoples
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• Indonesia
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• industrial gas projects
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• infant mortality
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• influenza
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• institutional pathologies
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• institutional schizophrenia
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• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
• Interagency Task Force on Tropical Forests (U.S.)
• Interagency Task Force on Tropical Forests (U.S.)
• internaliization (of costs)
• internaliization (of costs)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
• International Development Association IDA (see also: World Bank)
• International Development Association IDA (see also: World Bank)
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
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• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Maritime Organization
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• International Monetary Fund IMF
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• Irian Jaya
• Irian Jaya
• irrigation projects
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• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Ivory Coast forestry project
• Ivory Coast forestry project
• James Scheuer
• James Scheuer
• Japan
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• Java
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• Jim Yong Kim
• Jim Yong Kim
• Jose Lutzenberger
• Jose Lutzenberger
• jungle colonization
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• Kammen Daniel
• Kammen Daniel
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kenya
• Kenya
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Project
• Kiambere Hydroelectric Project
• Kosovo
• Kosovo
• Kosovo lignite coal plant
• Kosovo lignite coal plant
• Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
• Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kyoto Protocol
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• large dams
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• Legal Department World Bank
• Legal Department World Bank
• lindane
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• livestock ranching
• livestock ranching
• low-carbon energy lending
• low-carbon energy lending
• macro-irrationality
• macro-irrationality
• Madagascar
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• malaria
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• malathion
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• Malawi
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• Malaysia
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• measles
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• Medupi coal power plant
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• Mekong River Commission
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• Michael Wara
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• micro-rationality
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• micro hydropower
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• Millenium Development Goals
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• mini-grid
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• mining
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• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Narmada river
• Narmada river
• Narmada Sagar project
• Narmada Sagar project
• National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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• National Envivronmental Policy Act NEPA (U.S.)
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• national parks
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• national TFAP plans
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• National Wildlife Federation
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• Natural Resources Defense Council
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• natural rubber
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• neoclassical economic theory
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• Nepal
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• New Delhi
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• New York Declaration of Environmental Policies and Procedures
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• nitrous oxide
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• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• non-governmental organizations NGOs
• no regrets policy
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• off-grid
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• Office of Environmental and Scientific Affairs (World Bank)
• Office of Environmental and Scientific Affairs (World Bank)
• Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress)
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• oil projects
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• Operations Deprtment (World Bank)
• Operations Deprtment (World Bank)
• organochlorines
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• oustees
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• overgrazing
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• Oxfam
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• Pakistan
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• Pat Auferheide
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• Patrick Coady
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• Performance Standards (IFC)
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• Peru
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• perverse incentives
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• pesticide resistance
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• pesticide treadmill
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• Philippines
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• Plantar project (Brazil)
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• plastic feed stock
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• Polonoroeste project
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• poverty
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• power
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• premature mortality
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• Prince Charles
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• Pristina (Kosovo)
• Pristina (Kosovo)
• Project Performance Audits (World Bank)
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• protected natural areas
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• Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
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• public participation
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• Rainforest Memorandum
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• Rajiv Gandhi
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• refrigerant
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• renewable energy
• renewable energy
• research
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• resettlement
• resettlement
• resettlement plan
• resettlement plan
• resettlement policies (World Bank)
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• resettlement programs
• resettlement programs
• resettlement projects
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• resource curse
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• Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
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• roadbuilding
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• Robert McNamara
• Robert McNamara
• Rondônia
• Rondônia
• Rondônia Natural Resources Management Project
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• rubber tappers
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• rural development
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• Ruzizi II Regional Hydroelectric Project
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• Rwanda
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• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
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• Sasan coal plant (India)
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• Sector Policy Papers (World Bank)
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• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
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• Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
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• shadow price
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• Sierra Club
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• soft loans (MDBs)
• soft loans (MDBs)
• soil conservation
• soil conservation
• solar
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• South Africa
• South Africa
• staff incentives
• staff incentives
• Stanford University
• Stanford University
• Stategic Framework on Development and Climate Change (World Bank 2008)
• Stategic Framework on Development and Climate Change (World Bank 2008)
• Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (United Nations)
• Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (United Nations)
• Stockholm Declaration (1972)
• Stockholm Declaration (1972)
• Strategic Climate Fund
• Strategic Climate Fund
• Strategic Framework on Climate change and Development (World Bank 2008)
• Strategic Framework on Climate change and Development (World Bank 2008)
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment
• structural adjustment loans
• structural adjustment loans
• Subernarekha project
• Subernarekha project
• Sudan
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• sulfur dioxide
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• Sumatra
• Sumatra
• supercritical coal plants
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• supervision (World Bank)
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• sustainable development
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• sustainable forestry
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• sustainable logging
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• Swaziland
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• Tanzania
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• Tata Mundra coal plant
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• technology transfer
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• tobacco projects
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• tracking (CO2 emissions)
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• Trans-Amazonian highway (Brazil)
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• Transmigration projects Indonesia
• Transmigration projects Indonesia
• transparency
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• Transparency International
• Transparency International
• transportation
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• Treasury Department U.S.
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• trickle down aproach
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• tropical deforestation
• tropical deforestation
• tropical forest biome
• tropical forest biome
• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
• tropical moist forests
• tropical moist forests
• Turn Down the Heat (World Bank)
• Turn Down the Heat (World Bank)
• U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development
• U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress Human Rights Caucus
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• U.S. Executive Director (World Bank)
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• U.S. Export-Import Bank
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• U.S. Government Accountability Office
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• U.S. Treasury Department
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• Uganda
• Uganda
• Umbrella Carbon Facility (World Bank)
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• underdevelopment
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• UNDP
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• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
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• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• universal energy access
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• University of California Berkeley
• University of California Berkeley
• Viet Nam
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• Wapenhans report
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• Wapenhans Willi
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• water pollution
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• water projects
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• wind
• wind
• wind farms
• wind farms
• wood-curing (tobacco)
• wood-curing (tobacco)
• Working Group on Multilateral Assistance (U.S.)
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• World Bank
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• World Bank Articles of Agreement
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• World Bank Carbon Funds
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