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Five steps to smarter multi-bi aid: a new way forward for earmarked finance [PDF]
, 2017 Multi-bi aid – donor contributions to multilateral organisations earmarked for specific purposes – is an important channel for financing development, and is expected to grow.
Reinsberg, Bernhard
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Championed as a pathway for sustainable growth, the “blue economy” (BE) has garnered increasing interest in recent decades. International organizations like the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) increasingly point to marine resources and activities as a “new frontier” for economic growth ...
Flora St. Pier +2 more
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Optimal Multilateral Well Placement
, 2016 The oil industry is often faced with the problem of finding the optimal location and trajectory for an oil well. Increasingly this includes the additional complication of optimising the design of a multilateral well. We present a new approach based on the theory of expensive function optimisation.
Farmer, C, Fowkes, J, Gould, N
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In What Sense Can Intervention Reduce Exchange Rate Volatility? [PDF]
Can pegging reduce real as well as nominal, and multilateral as well as bilateral exchange rate volatility? We investigate this issue using monthly data for 139 countries from January 1990 to June 2006.
Manuela Francisc, Michael Bleaney
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Bolstering Global Trade: Governance A Work Program for the WTO presented by the High-Level Board of Experts on the Future of Global Trade Governance [PDF]
, 2017 The WTO provides the foundation of the rules-based global trading system that has played a critical role in sup- porting growth in global GDP during recent decades.
Hoekman, Bernard, Schuman, Robert
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Non-Repudiation in Internet Telephony
, 2007 We present a concept to achieve non-repudiation for natural language conversations over the Internet. The method rests on chained electronic signatures applied to pieces of packet-based, digital, voice communication.
Hett, Christian +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The discourse on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategies is growing, yet its ability to meaningfully advance health and social wellbeing (H&SW) in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3) remains under‐examined. Existing studies assume that ESG automatically strengthens SDG 3 outcomes, yet how the Governance
Arjun Chaudhuri +2 more
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Записки Горного институтаThe specific share of the reserves of hard-to-recover hydrocarbon raw materials is steadily growing. The search for technologies to increase the hydrocarbon recovery factor is one of the most urgent tasks facing the oil and gas industry.
Кirill О. Тomskii, Mariya S. Ivanova
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Tropical Forests and Sustainability: The Role of Multilateral Financing in Latin America
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The challenge of slowing deforestation and degradation in the tropical regions of Latin America requires financing mechanisms (public and private) that can enable actions to preserve and sustainably manage forest integrity. This paper begins by examining the strategy implemented by the World Bank to protect forest cover in tropical countries ...
Ángela Andrea Caviedes Conde +2 more
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Study of Co2 Injection to Enhance Gas Hydrate Production in Multilateral Wells
, 2023 Hongxing Du +5 more
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