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    Public-Private Partnerships in China: On 2014 as a landmark year, with past and future challenges (Discussion Paper)

    Public-Private Partnerships in China: On 2014 as a landmark year, with past and future challenges (Discussion Paper)

    This paper discusses the context and the recent developments of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the People’s Republic of China and... Read More

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    Quantifying the Mega-regional Trade Agreements: A review of Models

    Quantifying the Mega-regional Trade Agreements: A review of Models

    Major developments in trade policy are currently taking place in the mega-regional trade agreements, in particular in the Trans-Pacific... Read More

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    Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform and the Road to Paris

    Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform and the Road to Paris

    Fossil-fuel subsidy reform offers a major opportunity for sustainable development.

    As countries prepare for a major climate change... Read More

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    Curso de Capacitación: Construyendo Capacidades para Implementar el Marco de Políticas Mineras en la Republica Dominicana

    Curso de Capacitación: Construyendo Capacidades para Implementar el Marco de Políticas Mineras en la Republica Dominicana

    De 15 a 19 de septiembre de 2014, el Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible (por sus siglas en inglés, IISD) y la Dirección... Read More

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    Towards a Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Ontario: IISD input to MOECC’s Climate Change Discussion Paper

    Towards a Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Ontario: IISD input to MOECC’s Climate Change Discussion Paper

    The Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change released its Ontario Climate Change Discussion Paper 2015. This brief outlines IISD’s... Read More

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    Promoting Climate-Resilient Peacebuilding in Fragile States

    Promoting Climate-Resilient Peacebuilding in Fragile States

    Efforts to help fragile states move onto a path toward stability and sustainability continue to face enormous challenges.

    Climate change... Read More

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    Diesel Subsidy Reform in India: Lessons learned

    Diesel Subsidy Reform in India: Lessons learned

    The Indian government’s declaration of a formal end to diesel price regulation in October 2014 marked the culmination of a two-year process of... Read More

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    Energy Pricing, Energy Supply and FDI Competitiveness in Viet Nam: An assessment of foreign investor sentiment

    Energy Pricing, Energy Supply and FDI Competitiveness in Viet Nam: An assessment of foreign investor sentiment

    Foreign direct investment (FDI) has made a major contribution to Viet Nam’s impressive structural transformation and economic growth since the... Read More

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    Lessons Learned From China's Residential Tiered Electricity Pricing Reform

    Lessons Learned From China's Residential Tiered Electricity Pricing Reform

    Because electricity is an essential commodity for everyday life, the Chinese government mostly regulates its retail price. This paper reviews and evaluates the tiered electricity pricing reform in China, examining the impacts on equity, efficiency and subsidy expenditure. Read More
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    Recent Developments in Egypt’s Fuel Subsidy Reform Process

    Recent Developments in Egypt’s Fuel Subsidy Reform Process

    In July 2014, Egypt introduced long-awaited energy subsidy cuts. These had been in the pipeline for over five years, but repeatedly delayed by... Read More