Topic: development

This working paper sets out a framework to scale up locally-driven solutions to ecosystem decline, climate change and poverty.

This report argues that human rights are an integral part of effective and sustainable development, and should be explicitly considered in all World Bank Group (WBG) investment decisions. We examine the WBG’s integration of human rights standards into its operations — highlighting accomplishments, shortcomings, and barriers — and suggest ways forward.

This working paper documents a study of the Cameroonian forest taxation system, examining the distribution practices of the government.

This Forest Note summarizes findings from case studies of three rural councils in Cameroon regarding implementation of the government’s annual forestry fee revenue-sharing system from 2000-2002.

A Copenhagen agreement on climate change will likely take a legally binding form, but one that provides for a range of commitments by countries. This Working Paper clarifies a complex set of issues around the legal character of commitments and weighs the potential risks and benefits to countries of expressing their “nationally appropriate mitigation actions” (NAMAs) in a legally binding form.