Document Type: Agreement Report No.: Document Date: MAR 26, 2018

Author: LEGRL Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Inclusive and sustainable growth requires innovative methods and policies to overcome unsustainable development practices. Breaking from the historic development model to promote clean growth is necessary to ensure that developing countries do not degrade their environment as their economies grow, yet the measurement of this factor remains elusive in development work. ... See More + To ease a shift in development practices, it is then crucial to develop meaningful measures of green growth to compare economic and environmental change over time. Here, the report presents a multi-stage exercise to understand green growth, beginning with benchmarking national environmental stocks and ambient conditions. The authors then develop an approach to observe decoupling trends between environmental externalities and economic growth to better understand how a country’s environmental and economic performance relate to one another at macroeconomic and sectoral levels. Based on the results of the baseline and decoupling exercises, the authors develop hypotheses to explain the observed relationships between economic and environmental indicators and the foundational factors that may underlie them. The authors explore these hypotheses through policy implications and methodological requirements, with the ultimate goal of explaining relationships related to developmental impacts on ecosystems. To illustrate this process, the authors focus on selected European Union (EU) countries, drawing upon and complimenting World Bank systematic country diagnostic reports for Romania, Croatia, and Poland. Through this exercise, the authors conclude that the examination of baseline conditions and decoupling are useful tools for informed policymaking, and that with the availability of further refined data, green growth analyses can move toward understanding causal relationships between economic growth and environmental impacts.  See Less -

Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 124526 Document Date: MAR 01, 2018

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Author: Goldstein,Daria Disclosure Status: Disclosed

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Author: Goldstein,Daria Disclosure Status: Disclosed