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Global Economic Prospects, January 2020 : Slow Growth, Policy Challenges
World Bank Group - 2020
Global growth is projected to be slightly faster in 2020 than the post-crisis low registered last year. While growth could be stronger if reduced trade tensions lead to a sustained reduction in uncertainty, the balance of risks to the outlook is to the downside. Growth in emerging market and...
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Investing in Urban Resilience : Protecting and Promoting Development in a Changing World
World Bank Group - 2016
overcome these gaps, the World Bank Group and other multilateral development institutions can play a critical role in enabling …
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Identification for Development : Kenya
World Bank Group - 2016
Identification schemes are key enablers for the effective delivery of services and more broadly for the quality of engagement between a country's government and its citizens. Legal identity is now recognized as an essential element of development; target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals...
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Guinea-Bissau : Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
World Bank Group - 2016
Guinea-Bissau is fighting a battle against poverty, low growth, and political fragility. Each of these areas presents both a formidable challenge as well as an opportunity for serious, long-lasting and much-needed change. Poverty is entrenched, inequality is high and other human development...
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Pakistan Development Update, April 2016 : From Stability to Prosperity
World Bank Group - 2016
South Asia emerged as the fastest growing region in the world in 2015, posting GDP growth of 7 percent. Weak oil and commodity prices, slowing capital flows and shrinking global trade contributed towards a deceleration of growth in most of the world's economies. South Asia - as a net importer of...
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Public-Private Dialogue in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations : Experiences and Lessons Learned
World Bank Group - 2014
Public-private dialogue (PPD) is highly necessary in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) to fill the gap … resulting from the lack of legitimate institutions, to help create transparency and trust among stakeholders, and to identify … and conflict-mitigating results are difficult to capture. However, the stakeholders that benefit from the results highly …
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The Telecommunication Sector in the Palestinian Territories : A Missed Opportunity for Economic Development
World Bank Group - 2016
The Telecommunications Sector Assessment Note in the Palestinian territories is a knowledge product prepared by the World Bank in response to a specific request from the Palestinian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology (MTIT) to assess the performance of the...
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Identification for Development : Morocco
World Bank Group - 2014
The report is organized as follows. Section two reviews the identity ecosystem in Morocco. The section discusses in detail five identification programs that seem to have complementary strengths and that can be considered as assets. These are the national identity (CNIE), the civil register, the...
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Identification for Development : Guinea
World Bank Group - 2016
Guinea's ITC sector, the pilot project for the establishment of a national digital identification system must be more clearly defined; clarification is required regarding the status of the project signed at the end of March 2015, for the establishment of a civil registry and the production of...
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Identification for Development : Zambia
World Bank Group - 2016
Zambia provides a distinctive case of national identity management. Even from before independence in 1964 the identity card has played a prominent role and by 2010 the National Registration Card (NRC) covered more than 83 percent of the population of 16 and above. At the same time civil...
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