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Ghana : Cocoa Supply Chain Risk Assessment
World Bank - 2014
Cocoa is by far Ghana's most important crop. It dominates the agricultural sector and is a major source of income for approximately 800,000 farmers and many others engaged in trade, transportation, and processing of cocoa. Cocoa holds a unique position in Ghana's economy. It has long played a...
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Haiti Coffee Supply Chain Risk Assessment
World Bank - 2010
Coffee is an ecologically and economically significant crop for Haiti. It is not only the main source of income for more than 100,000 farmers, but the coffee ecosystem also sustains a large part of the remaining tree cover (currently at less than 1.5 percent of land) of the country. This report...
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Uganda Dairy Supply Chain Risk Assessment
World Bank - 2011
Cattle are one of the main instruments for economic (e.g., milk, meat, and cattle sale) and social (e.g., marriage, death, dispute settlement, and gift giving) exchange in Uganda. They serve as the main source of livelihood for a large majority of rural Ugandans, especially in the cattle...
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Ugandan Coffee Supply Chain Risk Assessment
World Bank - 2011
Despite losing global market share over the last 20 years, Uganda remains a major coffee producer, accounting for approximately 2.5 percent of global coffee production. In 2008-2009, coffee exports accounted for almost a quarter of Uganda's formal export earnings and were estimated to generate...
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Guyana Rice Supply Chain Risk Assessment
World Bank - 2011
This report is the outcome of assessment and is intended as an advisory note to the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) to enable them to identify a strategy and potential public investments to improve current risk-management practices in the rice supply chain....
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Combining insurance, contingent debt, and self-retention in an optimal corporate risk financing strategy
Gurenko, Eugene - 2003
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Review of risk mitigation instruments for infrastructure financing and recent trends and developments
Matsukawa, Tomoko - 2007
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Global logistics indicators, supply chain metrics, and bilateral trade patterns
Hausman, Warren H. - 2005
"Past research into the determinants of international trade highlighted the importance of the basic spatial gravity model augmented by additional variables representing sources of friction. Studies modeled many sources of friction using various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment...
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Transport and Logistics : Myanmar Infrastructure Monitoring
World Bank - 2022
Transport and logistics services in Myanmar have been substantially hit by the impacts of the February 2021 coup and the surge in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Logistics companies have been affected by rising fuel prices, border closures, and a shortage of shipping containers. While...
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Modernization of Japan's Hydromet Services : A Report on Lessons Learned for Disaster Risk Management
World Bank - 2017
economies of many nations. Japan's comprehensive multi-hazard approach covering weather, climate, ocean-related, and terrestrial … services has been applied and developed through numerous experiences of disastrous events, such as the 2011 Great East Japan … the Japan Meteorological Business Support Center (JMBSC) on meteorological services; and (ii) a background paper by the …
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