Documentos e Relatórios
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Survival of the fittest ? using network methods to assess the diffusion of project design concepts (Inglês)
About a third of development projects fail to achieve satisfactory outcomes, according to agencies' independent evaluation units. To a large extent, these outcomes appear to be baked into projects at their...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS7601 Data do documento: 16 de março de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.,Koenig,Pierre-Yves,Melancon,Guy,Renoust,Benjamin
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Adapting to climate change : assessing the World Bank Group experience - phase three of the World Bank Group and climate change (Inglês)
This paper constitutes the third and final volume of a series of assessments of the World Bank Group's engagement with climate change issues. The first focused on World Bank involvement in policy issues...
Qualquer tipo de documento: IEG Evaluation No. do relatório: 73462 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Besekei Sutton,Dinara,Chomitz,Kenneth M.,Hutton,Stephen
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Second phase : the challenge of low-carbon development - climate change and the World Bank Group (Inglês)
The first volume of Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) series (IEG 2009) examined World Bank experience with the promotion of the most important win-win (no regrets) energy policies, policies that combine...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 59460 Data do documento: 26 de janeiro de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.
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The challenge of low-carbon development : climate change and the World Bank Group - phase two (Inglês)
Unabated, climate change could derail development, with a one in four chance of a six-degree Celsius hike in temperature this century. Although industrialized countries are historically responsible for...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 58113 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2010 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.
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Protected area effectiveness in reducing tropical deforestation : a global analysis of the impact of protection status (Inglês)
This study assesses the impact of tropical protected areas on deforestation fires, which are the best available globally consistent proxy for deforestation at a fine spatial scale. The paper covers the...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 53370 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2009 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Nelson,Andrew,Chomitz,Kenneth M.
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Climate change and the World Bank Group : phase one - an evaluation of World Bank win-win energy policy reforms (Inglês)
This evaluation is the first of a series that seeks lessons from the World Bank Group's experience on how to carve out a sustainable growth path. The World Bank Group has never had an explicit corporate...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 48897 Data do documento: 28 de maio de 2009 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.
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Climate change and the World Bank Group : first phase - an evaluation of World Bank win-win energy policy reforms (Inglês)
Climate change threatens to derail development, even as development pumps ever-greater quantities of carbon dioxide into an atmosphere already polluted with two centuries of Western emissions. The World...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 53865 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2009 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.
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The effects of local environmental institutions on perceptions of smoke and fire problems in Brazil (Inglês)
Environmental concern in developing countries has risen rapidly over the past decade. At the same time, decentralization and civic participation in environmental policy-making have also burgeoned. This...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS4522 Data do documento: 1 de fevereiro de 2008 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila,Chomitz,Kenneth M.
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The nexus between infrastructure and environment (Inglês)
Infrastructure plays a crucial role in the drive for achieving development by providing energy, transportation, and water. There have been ups and downs in the degree of emphasis placed on infrastructure...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 65344 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2007 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.,Flanagan,Ann Elizabeth,Shilling,John D.
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The nexus between infrastructure and environment : from the evaluation cooperation group of the international financial institutions (Inglês)
Infrastructure plays a crucial role in the drive for achieving development by providing energy, transportation, and water. There have been ups and downs in the degree of emphasis placed on infrastructure...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 48912 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2007 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.,Flanagan,Ann Elizabeth,Shilling,John D.
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At loggerheads? Agricultural expansion, poverty reduction, and environment in the tropical forests (Vol. 2 of 2) (Francês)
There are many causes, consequences, and connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the tropical world. This report specifically addresses the potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty reduction...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 36789 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2007 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Buys,Piet,Chomitz,Kenneth M.,De Luca,Giacomo Davide,Thomas,Timothy S.,Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
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At loggerheads? Agricultural expansion, poverty reduction, and environment in the tropical forests (Vol. 2 of 2) (Espanhol)
There are many causes, consequences, and connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the tropical world. This report specifically addresses the potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty reduction...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 36789 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2007 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Buys,Piet,Chomitz,Kenneth M.,De Luca,Giacomo Davide,Thomas,Timothy S.,Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
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At loggerheads? Agricultural expansion, poverty reduction, and environment in the tropical forests (Vol. 1 of 2) (Indonésio-Malaio)
There are many causes, consequences, and connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the tropical world. This report specifically addresses the potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty reduction...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 36789 Data do documento: 23 de outubro de 2006 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Buys,Piet,Chomitz,Kenneth M.,De Luca,Giacomo Davide,Thomas,Timothy S.,Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
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At loggerheads? Agricultural expansion, poverty reduction, and environment in the tropical forests (Vol. 1 of 2) (Inglês)
There are many causes, consequences, and connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the tropical world. This report specifically addresses the potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty reduction...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 36789 Data do documento: 23 de outubro de 2006 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Buys,Piet,Chomitz,Kenneth M.,De Luca,Giacomo Davide,Thomas,Timothy S.,Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
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At loggerheads? Agricultural expansion, poverty reduction, and environment in the tropical forests (Vol. 1 of 2) : Realidades antagonicas? Expansion agricola, reduccion de la pobreza y medio ambiente en los bosques tropicales (Espanhol)
There are many causes, consequences, and connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the tropical world. This report specifically addresses the potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty reduction...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 36789 Data do documento: 23 de outubro de 2006 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Buys,Piet,Chomitz,Kenneth M.,De Luca,Giacomo Davide,Thomas,Timothy S.,Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
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Measuring the initial impacts on deforestation of Mato Grosso's program for environmental control (Inglês)
Although private forest use in Brazil has been regulated at least since the Forest Code of 1965, cumulative deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached 653,000 km2 by 2003 (INPE 2004). Much of this deforestation...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS3762 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2005 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.,Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
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Spatial dynamics of labor markets in Brazil (Inglês)
There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990s. In 2000, about one-fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS3752 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2005 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.,Magalhaes, Joao Carlos,Da Mata,Daniel Ferreira,de Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata
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Quantifying the rural-urban gradient in Latin America and the Caribbean (Inglês)
This paper addresses the deceptively simple question: What is the rural population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? It argues that rurality is a gradient, not a dichotomy, and nominates two dimensions...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS3634 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2005 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Buys,Piet,Chomitz,Kenneth M.,Chambers,Thomas Timothy
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The role of tropical forests in supporting biodiversity and hydrological integrity: a synoptic overview,The role of tropical forests in supporting biodiversity and hydrological integrity: a synoptic overview,The role of tropical forests in supporting biodiversity and hydrological integrity: a synoptic overview (Inglês)
Conservation of high-biodiversity tropical forests is sometimes justified on the basis of assumed hydrological benefits - in particular, the reduction of flooding hazards for downstream floodplain populations...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS3635 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2005 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.,Douglas, Ellen M.,Sebastian,Kate L.,Vorosmarty,Charles Joseph,Wood, Stanley
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The forest-hydrology-poverty nexus in Central America : An heuristic analysis (Inglês)
A "forest-hydrology-poverty nexus" hypothesis asserts that deforestation in poor upland areas simultaneously threatens biodiversity and increases the incidence of flooding, sedimentation, and other damaging...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS3430 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2004 Autor: Chomitz,Kenneth M.,Nelson,Andrew