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As foreign investments in agriculture and extractive industries increase pressures on land and natural resources, the effective use of legal tools, by government and advocates alike, has become an important ingredient of public efforts to ensure that foreign investment contributes to sustainable development. This handbook is about how to use law to make foreign investment work for…

While the economic growth renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognized, much less is known about progress in living conditions. This book comprehensively evaluates trends in living conditions in 16 major sub-Saharan African countries, corresponding to nearly 75% of the total population. A striking diversity of experience emerges. While monetary indicators improved in many countries,…

“The Untold Story: Climate change sinks below the headlines” is a research report prepared for presentation to international media attending the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy in April 2016. The report provides an analysis of the depth of media reporting around climate change in two distinct periods: two months before COP21 and two months after COP21. Specifically, it…

AfDB serves as a key CIF partner and implementing agency, along with its fellow Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). The AfDB’s Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC) produces this report every year as part of its contributions at AfDB to support Africa’s move toward climate-resilient and low-carbon development. The report highlights AfDB’s work to expand Africa’s access to…

These WDI Highlights are drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016 - the World Bank’s compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people’s lives. The 2016 edition of World Development Indicators offers a condensed presentation of the principal indicators, arranged in their traditional sections, along with regional and topical…

California is facing yet another year of unprecedented, record-breaking drought. At this time of need, US agencies have turned to Australia to identify the strategies that urban water utilities and water agencies adopted to survive its worst drought in recorded history, the Millennium Drought, which lasted from 1997 until it officially ended in 2012. Overall, Australia…