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Sugar prices, labor income, and poverty in Brazil
Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2006
household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to … 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local markets may be relatively more isolated from changes in world … world sugar prices. Results suggest that workers in the sugar sector and in sugar-producing regions have better employment …
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World Development Report 2020 : Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains
World Bank - 2019
Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis,...
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Trade Therapy : Deepening Cooperation to Strengthen Pandemic Defenses
World Bank; World Trade Organization - 2022
This report provides new data on trade in medical goods and services and medical value chains; surveys the evolving policy landscape before and during the pandemic; and proposes an action plan to improve trade policies and deepen international cooperation to deal with future pandemics
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Road Safety
World Bank - 2012
In 1999, between 750 000 and 880 000 persons died in road crashes worldwide, and another 23 to 34 million people were injured. The situation is particularly critical in low and middle income countries (LMCs) where about 86 percent of deaths from road traffic injuries occur even though these...
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Options for Low Income Countries Effective and Efficient Use of Tax Incentives for Investment : A Report to the G-20 Development Working Group by the IMF, OECD, UN and World Bank
International Monetary Fund - 2015
Experience shows that there is often ample room for more effective and efficient use of investment tax incentives in low-income countries. Tax incentives generally rank low in investment climate surveys in low-income countries, and there are many examples in which they are reported to be...
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Shaping Sustainable Consumption and Production Agenda in TurkeyA Study on Economic Instruments to Support SDG 12
World Bank - 2017
integrated nature of SDGs. The World Bank (WB) and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) are committed to helping national …
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The relative importance of global agricultural subsidies and market access
Anderson, Kym - 2006
the 5 percent generated by the most commonly used global model (GTAP) and reported in the paper's final section. "--World …
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Agriculture in the Doha Agenda
Messerlin, Patrick A. - 2003
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Making Teacher Policy Work
World Bank - 2023
This report zooms into what lies behind the success or failure of teacher policies: how teachers experience these policies, and how systems scale and sustain these policies. The report argues that for policies to be successful, they need to be designed and implemented with careful consideration...
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The Safe disposal of hazardous wastes : the special needs and problems of developing countries
Wilson, David (contributor); Smith, James E. (contributor);  … - 1989
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