World energy balances 2017: overview
World Energy Balances 2017 offers final and complete energy balances for 1971 to 2015, with supply estimates for 2016, by country and region. This overview from World Energy Balances 2017 contains a summary
GDP
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Africa's pulse: an analysis of issues shaping Africa’s economic future
Sub-Saharan Africa experienced a slowdown in investment growth from nearly 8% in 2014 to 0.6% in 2015, according to the new Africa’s Pulse, a biannual analysis of the state of African economies conducted
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Conscious decoupling: On eve of Brexit, UK leads G7 in both growth and carbon cuts
Over the last 25 years, the UK has been the most successful G7 nation at both growing its economy and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, new research shows. A report by the Energy and Climate Intelligence
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Asian development outlook 2017: transcending the middle-income challenge
Developing Asia has continued to perform well, even as recovery in the major industrial economies remains weak. The region is forecast to expand by 5.7% in 2017 and 2018, nearly the 5.8% growth achieved
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Climate change impact to cost Zambia $13bn
CLIMATE change impact will cost Zambia about US$13.8 billion which is 0.4 percent of annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth if it is not mitigated early, it has been learnt. Interim Climate Change
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A socio-economic impact assessment of the Zika Virus in Latin America and the Caribbean: with a focus on Brazil, Colombia and Suriname
In early 2016, Zika was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern due to its association with a surge of birth defects. Zika has since spread throughout Latin America and the Caribbean,
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Kenyan GDP rate to remain flat in 2017 amid worsening drought
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- The Kenyan economy is projected to grow at 5.9 per cent in 2017, the same rate of growth achieved in 2016 but might fall slightly further down due to a slowdown in economic activity
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Global Tracking Framework 2017: progress towards sustainable energy
<p><img alt="" src="http://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/library/medium/2017-03-22/0.71052900_1490191547_africa-power.jpg" style="width: 320px; height: 213px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />This third edition
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Enhancing farmers’ income: who to target and how?
Agriculture supports more than half of India’s population, but the per capita income of farmers is only about one-fifth of the average per capita income of the country. Moreover, the farming community
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Economic report on Africa 2017: urbanization and industrialization for Africa’s transformation
Despite the recent slowdown of the global economy and the weakening of Africa’s economic performance with the attendant implications for inclusion and sustainability, the long term growth outlook for Africa
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Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2017
India ranked 87th among the surveyed 127 countries on a Global Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) released as part of report of Geneva- based World Economic Forum (WEF). EAPI is a composite index