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Ghana : Country Environmental AnalysisThe Ghana Country Environment Analysis (CEA) has thus been formulated to assist the Government of Ghana and its development partners to: (a) assess the country's environmental priorities in key sectors, the environmental implications of key economic and sector policies, and the country's institutional capacity to address them; and (b) find practical management, institutional, and policy solutions to handle issues of natural resource management, environmental degradation, and sustainability of growth. Based on the results of the sectoral analysis, the key messages of the CEA can be summarized as follows: strengthening environmental governance is key to ensuring that natural resources contribute to greater wealth and sustainable growth; removing policy, regulatory, and institutional bottlenecks is crucial for reducing vulnerability of the poor in both rural and urban areas; reinforcing coordination and dialogue to mainstream ENRM is critical; and ministries, departments, and agencies in all the natural resource and environment sectors face common challenges.
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Strengthening China's
 Environmental Protection Administrative System : Analysis
 and RecommendationsThe Chinese economy has experienced an
 unprecedented 30-year period of economic growth and
 development that has delivered enormous social and economic
 benefits to the people but has had seriously adverse and
 continuing effects on the state of the environment. The
 government is well aware of the problem. Over the last five
 to ten years, environmental objectives have become
 increasingly important in priorities set under successive
 national five-year plans. To address these problems, the
 government has provided increasingly large infusions of
 capital and implemented a series of administrative reforms.
 Notwithstanding all these actions, the state of the national
 environment continues to deteriorate, and further action is
 clearly needed. This policy note focuses particularly on
 continuing issues related to the operations of the Ministry
 for Environmental Protection (MEP), including the legal
 framework under which it operates and its operational
 relationships with other agencies at the national level and
 with its counterparts at lower levels of government. This
 focus is justified given that MEP's effectiveness is
 critical to the effectiveness of the government's
 overall environmental objectives. Without an effective MEP,
 the other elements necessary for China's
 environmentally sustainable development will not be able to
 achieve these national goals.
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Strengthening China's Environmental Protection Administrative System : Analysis and RecommendationsThe Chinese economy has experienced an unprecedented 30-year period of economic growth and development that has delivered enormous social and economic benefits to the people but has had seriously adverse and continuing effects on the state of the environment. The government is well aware of the problem. Over the last five to ten years, environmental objectives have become increasingly important in priorities set under successive national five-year plans. To address these problems, the government has provided increasingly large infusions of capital and implemented a series of administrative reforms. Notwithstanding all these actions, the state of the national environment continues to deteriorate, and further action is clearly needed. This policy note focuses particularly on continuing issues related to the operations of the Ministry for Environmental Protection (MEP), including the legal framework under which it operates and its operational relationships with other agencies at the national level and with its counterparts at lower levels of government. This focus is justified given that MEP's effectiveness is critical to the effectiveness of the government's overall environmental objectives. Without an effective MEP, the other elements necessary for China's environmentally sustainable development will not be able to achieve these national goals.