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Ethiopia : Managing Water Resources to Maximize Sustainable Growth
World Bank - 2012
vulnerability of the economy to these shocks. It helps clarify linkages between the country's economic performance and its water … resources endowment and management. It then uses this analysis to recommend both water resource strategies and economic and …-wide effects of water shocks. This report finds that unmitigated hydrological variability currently costs the economy over one …
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Dealing with the coffee crisis in Central America : impacts and strategies
Varangis, Panayotis N. (contributor) - 2003
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Carbon Pricing Watch 2015
World Bank - 2015
Significant progress in carbon pricing has been made over the last ten years. In 2015, about 40 national and over 20 subnational jurisdictions, representing almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), are putting a price on carbon. Together, the carbon pricing instruments in these...
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Guidelines for the Successful Regional Integration of Financial Infrastructures
World Bank - 2014
Over the past decade or so, the prospects of long term economic, institutional and social gains from regional and global financial and trade liberalization have become more appealing to public and private stakeholders. Indeed, since the late 1980’s both developing and advanced economies have...
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Methodological study
Telesca, Luigi; Islam, Md Mahfuzul; Huhtamäki, Jukka; … - Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Justiz und … - 2021
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Assessment of Costs and Benefits of the Customs Union for Kazakhstan
World Bank - 2012
In 2010, Kazakhstan entered into a customs union with Belarus and Russia. The first, relatively easy step in the implementation of the customs union was accomplished in 2010 with the adoption of a common external tariff, with varying exceptions in each of the three member countries. It is the...
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Regional Power Integration : Structural and Regulatory Challenges
World Bank - 2012
The Central America Regional Electricity Market (MER) trades electricity and transmission capacity among six Central American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. The market differs from other electricity markets worldwide because it has its own...
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Vietnam - Gas Sector Development Framework : Final Report
World Bank - 2012
Vietnam's gas sector is at a critical point. Vietnam's gas industry, from the producing field to the end-user, is already a vital component of the nation's energy economy and has the potential for major growth. Successes in the past decade have created a strong prospective demand for gas....
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Poland - Convergence to Europe : The Challenge of Productivity Growth - Investment Climate Assessment
World Bank - 2012
time to the standard of living of the European Union (EU)-15 countries. Sound macroeconomic policy, debt sustainability … region. The report also analyses Poland's strengths and weaknesses in the context of a regional comparison, with the EU-8 … countries, which recently joined the European Union, the cohesion countries, and the other EU member countries. …
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Africa???s Trade in Services and Economic Partnership Agreements
World Bank - 2012
Trade can play a crucial role in the development of services sectors in Africa. Services offer new dynamic opportunities for exports, especially for land-locked countries, while opening up to imports of services and foreign direct investment is a key mechanism to increase competition and drive...
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