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Measuring Rural Access : Update 2017/18
World Bank Group - 2019
Transport connectivity is an essential part of the enabling environment for inclusive and sustained growth. In many developing countries, particularly in Africa, most people are still not connected to local, regional, or global markets. Such rural accessibility is crucial to reduce poverty and...
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Greener Transport Connectivity for Eastern Partnership Countries
World Bank Group - 2020
European Union (EU) and its six Eastern neighbours. One of its four priority areas is stronger connectivity which includes the … regulatory convergence across transport modes between member countries and with the EU to heighten the focus on energy efficiency … Union in 1989. At the same time, EaP countries are acutely aware of the need to converge with the EU in terms of energy …
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Managing the Fiscal Implications of Public-Private Partnerships in a Sustainable and Resilient Manner : A Compendium of Good Practices and Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemi...
World Bank Group - 2023
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can sometimes be perceived as a means for delivering infrastructure for free. A more nuanced but still inexact view is that they are a mechanism to overcome fiscal constraints. Some argue, perhaps rightly, that often governments enter PPP contracts without...
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Guidelines for a Strategy for Ports and Inland Waterways
World Bank Group - 2022
Argentina has a fairly developed transport system, which in the case of cargo shows a performance in progressive decline, with remarkable differences between components, logistics chains, and regions. Water transport, a key sector for the country's connectivity with world markets, encounters...
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Air Transport : Annual Report 2021
World Bank Group - 2022
Air transport plays an important role in fostering development, particularly in facilitating economic integration, generating trade, promoting tourism, and creating employment opportunities. It facilitates integration into the global economy and provides vital connectivity on a national,...
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