Behavioral Economics – Policy Impact and Future Directions
Behavioral economics - a field based in collaborations among economists and psychologists - focuses on integrating a nuanced understanding of behavior into models of decision-making. Since the mid-20th century, this growing field has produced research in numerous domains and has influenced policymaking, research, and marketing. However, little has been done to assess these contributions and review evidence of their use in the policy arena.
Mobilizing new climate investment models – brief actionable research agenda
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Increasing strategic and large-scale investments in low-and middle-income countries are required to ensure a just, equitable, and predictable low-carbon transition. Mobilizing Climate Investment Models is part of a larger initiative to identify the most promising research issues to support an actionable low-carbon transition in the Global South.
Gender - brief actionable research agenda
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Addressing gender dimensions of the low carbon transition is core to ensuring a gendered transformative change that is more equitable. Gender equity is thus part of a larger initiative to identify the most promising research issues to support an actionable low-carbon transition in the Global South.
Aim: To ensure that research in support of an inclusive global low-carbon transition (LCT) takes into account gender dimensions in order to promote gender equity.
Household electricity consumption inefficiency and poverty: Evidence from Ghana
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Key Messages Improvements in household electricity consumption resulting from efficiency improvements have the potential to reduce household electricity expenditure, and consequently the level of poverty among households. However, little is known about the extent to which improvement in electricity consumption efficiency can reduce poverty. Our study finds that: |
Poverty and gender considerations in marine spatial planning
Summary
The report provides a framework for ensuring that marine spatial planning (MSP) does not worsen poverty and gender inequality in developing countries, and that potentially marginalised groups are appropriately considered and engaged in the MSP process.
This report provides guidelines for the steps of a more inclusive MSP process.
The findings indicate that a scorecard can be used to guide the social sustainability of the MSP process. The criteria in the scorecard include: