scholarly journals Advantages of Green Innovations and Technologies

Economics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (6-9) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Madona Kantidze Madona Kantidze
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Energy Field ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

The aim of the research is to explore the benefits of green innovations and technologies in the natural, economic and social environment. As for the methodology, the article presents an empirical study. The reports of the European Union and the World Bank are reviewed, as well as the relevant conclusions are made based on the results of a research conducted in China, the analysis of the reforms adopted in Malaysia and the experience of Georgia. Based on the reviewed reports and researches, we can conclude that green innovations and technologies have the following advantages:  Contributes significantly to the risks of destruction of the environment, natural resources, flora and fauna;  Allows businesses to use natural resources more efficiently, which decrease as time goes on;  Promotes the development of a new, renewable energy field, which will significantly replace non-renewable energy;  Green innovations and technologies help countries save non-renewable energy (for example, hybrid cars, help us save fuel);  Gives business companies a competitive advantage (for example, countries that have promoted the idea of wind turbines have acquired a significant competitive advantage);  Promotes the circular economy by increasing the life cycle of a product by reusing, renewing, repairing, or recycling it. Keywords: green, innovations, technologies, environment, protection.

scholarly journals Central African Republic

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (216) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

President Touadéra signed a new peace agreement on February 6, 2019 with 14 armed groups. This agreement calls for the establishment of an inclusive government, the deployment of joint brigades, an acceleration of decentralization efforts, and the co-management of natural resources. While its implementation has started, including with the appointment of more inclusive government, the security situation remains volatile. The World Bank (WB) and the European Union (EU) have substantially increased their budgetary support (grants) for 2019–20. The authorities have expressed a strong interest in a successor arrangement.

scholarly journals International Comparative and Competitive Advantage of Post-Soviet Countries in Tourism

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Famil Majidli
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
Comparative Advantages ◽  
Advantageous Position ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
Balassa Index

In this study, the comparative and competitive advantage of Post-Soviet countries in the tourism sector is examined. Firstly, whether the tourism sector of the countries included in the sample developed between 1995 and 2018 was examined. Revealed Comparative Advantages Index which is developed by Balassa and Expanded Balassa Index were used to analyze the comparative and competitive advantage of countries, respectively, which are the main purpose of the study. The results of the study, which are calculated based on the data obtained from the database of the World Bank, provide information especially regarding the advantageous position of Georgia regarding Balassa Index. In addition to Georgia, Armenia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Estonia and Uzbekistan have international comparative advantage and when the situation of the countries is evaluated over the EB index it is concluded to, Tajikistan and Georgia have strong, Kyrgyz Republic and Moldova have medium, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Lithuania and Belarus have weak competitive advantage. The research is important in terms of the policies that Post Soviet countries will form within the scope of tourism sectors.

The effect of social expenditures on human development in the European Union

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-643
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Expenditures ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Distribution Of Income

Abstract Researchers and practitioners alike have long debated the role of high GDP growth strategies and social expenditures (SE) in ensuring a better distribution of income and reduction of poverty. This study is aimed at investigating the effectiveness of social expenditures by offering the use of a robust methodology. Our sample consists of 27 EU countries (further divided into pre- and post-2000 members) between 2005 and 2017. We used panel data to determine whether social expenditures have a positive effect on the World Bank generated Human Development Index (HDI).

Mediterranean Challenges: Between Old Problems and New Solutions

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-497
Author(s):  
Maria Gavouneli
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Integrated Coastal Zone Management ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Mediterranean Community ◽  
The Mediterranean

AbstractTrue to its venerable tradition, the Mediterranean system seems poised to embark on a new attempt at innovation. Within the first few months of 2008, we have celebrated the adoption of the much-awaited new protocol on integrated coastal zone management in the Mediterranean and we have witnessed a number of mutually reinforcing initiatives, coming from both the neighbourhood, especially the European Union, and from afar, including financial organisations such as the World Bank. They are all designed, if not to reverse, then at least to prevent the threat to biodiversity from accelerating. In essence, the wider Mediterranean community is moving beyond the traditional allocation of state jurisdiction at sea and expanding both landwards, towards the coast, and seawards, towards the high seas. In so doing, it is developing and making use of new tools for environmental protection, challenging and perhaps redesigning in the process the traditional jurisdictional tenets of the law of the sea. This paper will attempt to map these developments and come up with a first assessment of their prospects, given the daunting structural and financial deficiencies of the system.

scholarly journals WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRAZIL?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
LADISLAU DOWBOR
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Child Mortality ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

Under Lula and Dilma, during the 2003-2013 decade that the World Bank called “the Golden Decade of Brazil”, we had simultaneously economic growth, social inclusion, environment protection and job expansion. With no deficit and very low inflation, and all despite the turbulence of the 2008 crisis. The onslaught on the inclusive policies started in 2014, Dilma was ousted through a thinly disguised coup in 2016, ex-president Lula was jailed for the time of the 2018 election, won by Jair Bolsonaro. Since the old oligarchies and corporate interests took over, the economy is stalled, unemployment has doubled, the Amazon is being cut down, child mortality is growing. The pandemic deepened an already general economic and social crisis. The aim of this paper is to present an overview of what went wrong, centering not on the pandemic itself, but on the deeper structural change that reversed the inclusive growth model of the popular governments. This involves the economy, but also technological, social and political change. The overall thesis is that inclusive development works, austerity does not.

scholarly journals Beyond the National: How the EU, OECD, and World Bank Do Family Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-68
Author(s):  
Jane Jenson
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
National Level ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Frame

AbstractIn recent decades, numerous international organizations have adopted positions that use components of a policy frame familiar from family policy at the national level. They sought to advance one or more of three classic goals of that domain: stabilizing demography, ensuring income security, and supporting parents’ labor force participation. This chapter tracks the last several decades of policy action in three international organizations—the European Union, the OECD, and the World Bank. It documents the changing interventions of each organization that touch on these three goals, whether or not the organization claims to be committed to having family policy. The analysis focuses in particular on the expressed policy goal(s), the targets and policy instruments, and the policy frame used to justify each. The main finding is that despite different trajectories over time the three share processes leading to non-familialization via greater emphasis on individuals and often children.

scholarly journals Guinea- Bissau

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (214) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

Political instability has limited the development of Guinea-Bissau’s institutional capacity. For example, tensions between the President and the leadership of the country’s largest political party led to six changes of government between the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections. Previous IMF capacity development reports, ECF program reviews staff reports, and other diagnosis undertaken by the World Bank and the European Union have pointed to structural governance weaknesses and proposed corrective measures, in some cases, similar to those highlighted in this report. Regrettably, traction has been limited.

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