Climate change and climate policies will affect poverty reduction efforts through direct and
immediate impacts on the poor and by affecting factors that condition poverty reduction, such …

Executive summary Governments often consider the potential impacts of different options on
employment in setting policy or examining projects in the energy sector. The employment …

To meet its infrastructure needs, the Middle East needs to invest, on average, around 6% of
its GDP annually, although with differences across countries. This could lead to direct job …

Green growth is increasingly being seen as a means of simultaneously meeting current and
future climate change obligations and reducing unemployment. This paper uses detailed …

This article estimates the effect of transport infrastructure at country level, on employment,
productivity (total factor productivity (TFP), and their components technical efficiency–pure …

The links between infrastructure and development are well established. They include the
impact of infrastructure on poverty alleviation, equity, growth and specific development …

Infrastructure is essential for economic growth, and public procurement is an important
instrument to use limited resources effectively. Among public procurers there remains a …

Amid a still fragile economic environment, and rising concerns about deteriorating
environmental conditions, policy-makers are examining the potential for new sources of …

According to the Italian regulation firms must qualify to bid in auctions for public work
contracts worth more than 150,000 euros. In this paper, we investigate the link between the …