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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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• Environmental Reform and the Multilateral Banks

  Environmental Reform and the Multilateral Banks

  A description and analysis of the strategy of civil society organizations to promote environmental reforms in World Bank in the 1980s.

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• Michael Wara
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• particulate matter
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• Penan tribe (Malaysia)
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• Performance Standards (IFC)
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• Peru
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• perverse incentives
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• Philippines
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• Plantar project (Brazil)
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• plastic feed stock
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