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Despite its importance to sustainable development, very little information exists on environmental health linkages … on Sub-Saharan Africa infrastructure operations to assess their environmental health dimensions and lessons learned which …: bridging environmental health gaps. Volume one contains environmental health background material as well as a checklist for …
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accelerate trade integration and growth, and to reduce poverty. Each part of the report focuses on a key question and provides an … poverty reduction using two types of macroeconomic models. The report concludes with policy priorities for accelerating …
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The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by … report includes information about high-income countries. It finds that while gaps in living standards have been closing in …
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"Oil and mineral revenues raise national savings and hence facilitate investment, capital accumulation, and sustained growth; thus, there are benefits of owning large natural resources. There can be a significant spillover effect from the oil sector to the non-oil sector particularly if...
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programs) and to revive social services like education and health. …
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past decade, which after the setback associated with the 1991 balance of payments crisis, economic growth picked up, income … poverty continued to decline, and many social indicators, in particular literacy, continued to improve. Likewise, there has …: education, health and social safety nets, and, it has been argued that decentralization, and local empowerment will ultimately …
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Poverty, environment, social development, and gender are important cross-cutting themes of the World Bank and … between gender, environment, and poverty and help identify approaches that can accelerate the positive synergy and better … social/gender, environment, and poverty outcomes; otherwise, the existing negative relationships may slow the development …
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African Francs (FCFA) in programs will promote sustainable land management (SLM) and other activities to reduce poverty and … on land management, agricultural production, poverty, and other outcomes are not well known. A few studies have …
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