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Global Economic Prospects 2005 : Trade, Regionalism and Development
World Bank - 2013
The proliferation of regional trade agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of … countries, they can have adverse effects on excluded countries. Lowering of border barriers around the world is crucial to … minimizing these effects. The completion of the Doha Development Agenda by all countries in the World Trade Organization will …
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Finance for Growth : Policy Choices in a Volatile World
World Bank - 2013
The overall impact of financial globalization on the domestic financial sector is profound. Liberalization of capital flows has effectively made domestic financial repression obsolete. The consequences have not been uniformly favorable. Following liberalization, domestic interest rates in...
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Environmental Valuation and Greening the National Accounts : Challenges and Initial Practical Steps
World Bank - 2013
The national accounts are the single most important source of information about the economy, and are widely used in all countries to assess economic performance and for policy analysis. However, the national accounts have a number of well-known shortcomings when it comes to treatment of the...
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International Experience with Cross-border Power Trading
World Bank - 2013
The five main lessons for Southern Africa from our review of the experiencewith cross-border power trading in other regions of the work are that: Security of supply concerns need to be explicitly addressed and understood by the parties to proposed cross-border transactions. Regional entities...
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Global Monitoring Report 2007 : Millennium Development Goals, Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States
World Bank - 2012
Broad-based global economic growth in 2006, and more generally since 2000, provides grounds for optimism about progress in advancing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The 2007 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) takes stock of this progress and assesses the contributions of developing...
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World Congress on Communication for Development : Lessons, Challenges, and the Way Forward
World Bank - 2012
The first World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD) took place in Rome, Italy, on October 25-27, 2006. The …
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Cross-border Tertiary Education : A Way towards Capacity Development
World Bank - 2012
This report emphasizes that cross-border tertiary education refers to the movement of people, programs, providers, curricula, projects, research and services in tertiary (or higher) education across national jurisdictional borders. Cross-border education is a subset of educational...
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International trade and Climate Change : Economic, Legal, and Institutional Perspectives
World Bank - 2012
existing World Trade Organization (WTO) principles. The chapter further identifies areas where priorities for proactive policy …
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Changing the Face of the Waters : The Promise and Challenge of Sustainable Aquaculture
World Bank - 2012
This study provides strategic orientations and recommendations for Bank client countries and suggests approaches for the Bank's role in a rapidly changing industry with high economic potential. It identifies priorities and options for policy adjustments, catalytic investments, and entry points...
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Global Economic Prospects 2006 : Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration
World Bank - 2012
The themes of the 2006 Global Economic Prospects (GEP) are international remittances and migration, their economic consequences, and how policies can increase their role in reducing poverty. The GEP explores the gains and losses from international migration from the perspective of developing...
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