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"This inaugural issue of the World Bank Groupl's Global Investment Competitiveness report presents novel analytical …
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year’s World Development Report argues that a more realistic account of decision-making and behavior will make development … world has made familiar. And social emotions and social norms motivate much of what they do. These insights together explain …
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The 2016 World Development Report shows that while the digital revolution has forged ahead, its “analog complements …
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Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes such as security, growth, and equity? And why do some bad policies endure? This book addresses these fundamental questions, which are at the...
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measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development … Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank's compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality … important by experts in the World Bank's Global Practices and Cross Cutting Solution Areas. Nevertheless, The Atlas aims to …
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The Sourcebook synthesizes real-world experiences and lessons learned of social protection delivery systems from around … the world, with a particular focus on social and labor benefits and services. It takes a practical approach, seeking to …
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resources, country institutions, and national culture on the survival and growth of private firms around the world during the … COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing World Bank Enterprise Follow-up Surveys on COVID-19 that cover 18,770 firms in 36 countries …
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Drawing on various macro- and micro-data sources, the authors present robust evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation and inequality. Overall, female labor force participation is found to have a strong and significant dis-equalizing impact in at...
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In 2013, the World Bank Group announced two goals that would guide its operations worldwide. The first is the ….25 ppp-adjusted dollars a day, to less than 3% of the world population by 2030. The second is the boosting of shared … World Bank make regarding complementary monetary and non-monetary poverty measures to be tracked and made available to …
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