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The objective of this note is to provide insights into the potential effect of the adaptation protocol (AP) on imports of European Union (EU) agricultural, food and fisheries products into Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). We adapt and calibrate the Tariff Reform Impact Simulation Tool (TRIST), a...
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This report contributes to the scarce literature on labor market outcomes of different levels of education and returns to education in Belarus. Previous calculations of returns to education in Belarus were carried out for 1996-2001 (Pastore and Verashchagina 2006) and for 1995-2011 (Chubrik...
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predictive and diagnostic capabilities that can be coupled with climate-smart agriculture to improve resilience to El Nino and La …
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The global technology and innovation frontier pushes forward at a rapid pace, and countries around the world seek to either keep up, or catch up. Countries at the frontier are forward-looking, have robust economies, are open to investment and technology, and have competitive, well-matched...
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Tunisia is expected to enter a recession in 2020 as a result of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the slowdown in production due to no demand, and decline in tourism. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaged only 1.8 percent per year in 2011-2018 compared to 4 percent in 2001-2005 and...
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LAC has endured one of the longest spells of school closures. The region was hit disproportionately hard in health, economic, and educational terms. In the region, an entire generation of students - approximately 170 million - were fully deprived of in-person education for roughly 1 out of 2...
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contribution of the agriculture sector to the country's economic growth and diversification, employment creation, poverty reduction …, however, requires an integrated set of multi-sectoral policies. Synergistic public and private investments in agriculture …, water, and land can lead to increased production and productivity by transitioning from low returns from agriculture to high …
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country. Zambia's agriculture sector faces challenges and is likely to grow more vulnerable as a result of climate change and … risk. At the same time, land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), and agriculture sector account for approximately … change concerns into its agriculture policy agenda. Under its Zambia climate-smart agriculture (CSA) strategy framework, the …
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This document provides an investment plan for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Mali, developed with support of the … AAA Initiative and the World Bank, and technical assistanceof the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, the World … Agroforestry Centre and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture, Climate Change and Food Security (CCAFS). It identifies specific …
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Climate change threatens to bring substantial impacts to Cote d'Ivoire's agriculture sector, which is central to the … greenhouse gases. This document provides an investment plan for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Cote d'Ivoire, developed with … Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). This plan includes a set of twelve key CSA investments for Cote d'Ivoire that were …
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