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The Global Panorama of Carbon Prices in 2017 presents key trends regarding the implementation of explicit carbon pricing policies at the regional and national level in 2017.

The paper Decarbonizing Electricity Generation with Intermittent Sources of Energy examines public policies and technological solutions that aim to decarbonize electricity production by replacing fossil fuel energy by intermittent renewable sources, namelywind and solar power.

The paper System-of-systems framework for global infrastructure vulnerability assessments addresses the need for a system-of-systems framework that applies to assess infrastructure vulnerabilities in a generalized sense.

The paper Lessons from Four Decades of Infrastructure Project Related Conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean examines infrastructure project related conflicts and their consequences in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

The paper "Sanitation and Externalities: Evidence from Early Childhood Health in Rural India" estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation or from unimproved sanitation to improved sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood’s access to sanitation infrastructure. The paper uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey 2007– 08 and finds evidence of positive and significant direct benefits and concave positive external effects for both improved sanitation and fixed-point defecation. There is a 47 percent reduction in diarrhea prevalence between children living in a household without access to improved sanitation in a village without coverage of improved sanitation and children living in a household with access to improved sanitation in a village with complete coverage. One-fourth of this benefit is due to the direct benefit leaving the rest to external gains.