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Vietnam Urbanization Review : Technical Assistance Report
World Bank - 2012
As Vietnam enters a crucial period of urbanization corresponding to its present stage of economic development, the … Urbanization Review is dedicated to understanding the key dimensions and aspects of Vietnam's urbanization process and to … realize its objective. The Vietnam Urbanization Review was prepared following extensive consultations with various …
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Cali, Colombia : Toward a City Development Strategy
World Bank - 2013
Although many of the problems that Cali is experiencing - social and human capital deterioration, a declining economy, and institutional crisis - are a reflection of Colombia's complicated socioeconomic situation, the city has been hit harder by the crisis than other large cities, as confirmed...
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Principles and Practice of Ecologically Sensitive Urban Planning and Design : An Application to the City of Hai Phong, Vietnam
World Bank - 2012
Urbanization, which is almost completed now in developed countries and even in Latin America, is now proceeding in much … lifestyles and increasingly also living in urban regions. The forms that urbanization is taking in the developing countries …
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Gender Dimensions of Community-Driven Development Operations : A Toolkit for Practitioners
World Bank - 2011
Community-development development (CDD) programs require monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to tell those implementing and funding the programs whether they are on track to deliver, or have delivered, desired outcomes such as improved services, economic activity, and empowerment. The objective of...
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Panama : structural change and growth prospects
1985 - 1. print.
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Korea : policy-issues for long-term development ; the report of a mission sent to the Republic of Korea by the World Bank
Hasan, Parvez (contributor); Rao, D. C. (contributor) - 1979
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Global Monitoring Report 2009 : A Development Emergency
World Bank - 2009
A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...
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Development as leadership-led change : a report for the Global Leadership Initiative
Andrews, Matt - 2010
Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence. This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global...
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The Great Recession and developing countries : economic impact and growth prospects
Nabli, Mustapha K. (contributor) - 2010
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World Development Report 2012 : Gender Equality and Development
World Bank - 2011
The WDR 2012: Gender Equality and Development will focus on the evolution of gender equality across the world in the context of the development process. The report will consider gender equality as a core development goal in itself, and will argue that gender equality matters for the pace of...
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