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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

For example, bonds could be designed so that real estate developers and infrastructure promoters are paid bonuses based on various measures of coordinated progress achieved beyond the minimum expectation; multisector outcomes might include less time in commuting, or reductions in the rate of urban pollution per unit of GDP.

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Is Your Economy Built on the World's Best Knowledge?

Harvard Business Review

Now and then, over the years, a government agency or NGO issues a report that is startlingly insightful and useful. However, because of several odd factors (for example: they can't be commercially advertised) these reports often don't come to the attention of many who might actually have some use for their information.

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An Approach to Ending Poverty That Works

Harvard Business Review

5% of GDP over six years. He is authoring an as yet unpublished study comparing these programs to 50 other government and NGO livelihood and cash transfer programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. “In some cases it actually works out to be cheaper, especially when you take effectiveness into account.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. For our study, we focused in detail on 10 ranches participating in the Novo Campo program and on Fazenda São Marcelo, a large ranch that has been Rainforest Alliance certified since 2012, working with the Brazilian NGO Imaflora.

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10 Sustainable Business Stories Too Important to Miss

Harvard Business Review

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. The short story is that we have less room than before. What Companies Are Doing.