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The Bank Group's lending and non-lending support for environmental sustainability has increased and improved over the past 15 years. But the institution needs to raise the priority it accords to this area of rising concern, strengthen internal cooperation, and work more effectively with its...
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World Bank and the Government of Mongolia. The goal of the study was to improve understanding about the economic value of …
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Between 2018 and 2021, the country was beset by multiple crises: severe droughts in 2018 and 2021, escalating violence, and the COVID-19 pandemic, fundamentally affected Afghans' livelihoods, creating an even more fragile context. In 2021, five years after households started receiving the...
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economic borders and enter world markets to take advantage of scale and trade in specialized products. World Development Report … and high mortality persist among the world???s bottom billion, trapped without access to global markets, even as others …
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Migration is a development challenge. About 184 million people-2.3 percent of the world’s population—live outside of … their country of nationality. Almost half of them are in low- and middle-income countries. But what lies ahead? As the world … and can help achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. World Development Report 2023 proposes an …
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Urbanization and climate change will define much of the 21st century. Urbanization leads to improvement in standards of living, and through the increased density and service delivery efficiency of cities, higher growth can be achieved with lower greenhouse gas emissions. Cities and urban...
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-Saharan Africa (World Bank (2023a) and Guidance, Standards, and Good Practice Notes developed under the program …
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