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Patterns in household demand and saving
Lluch, Constantino - 1977
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Moldova - The Consequences of Several Shocks for Consumption and Poverty
World Bank - 2012
The distribution of consumption in Moldova implies that changes in workers' remittances, migration, and energy prices … could influence consumption and poverty rates in some unexpected and even counter-intuitive ways. Relatively well-off groups … proportion to their consumption. The consumption of relatively wealthy groups is linked directly to price of natural gas, while …
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Transactional sex as a response to risk in Western Kenya
Robinson, Jonathan - 2009
with risk through other formal or informal consumption smoothing mechanisms. "--World Bank web site …
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Behavioral Insights to Reduce Open Waste Burning in Lao PDR : Behavioral Insights and Policy Options
World Bank - 2022
In order to promote environmentally friendly behaviors, it is fundamental not only to consider and modify already existing infrastructure and facilities, or rethink physical prompts and cues in the environment, but also contemplate and target the cognitive traits inherent to any human being....
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Saving Fish and Fisheries : Towards Sustainable and Equitable Governance of the Global Fishing Sector
World Bank - 2013
This Fisheries Sector Approach Paper has been written in recognition of the mounting challenges that the World Bank and the developing world face in meeting the fishery sector-related Millennium Development Goals and the outcomes of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. It augments...
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Turning the Tide : Saving Fish and Fishers
World Bank - 2014
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the first global assessment of the state of the world's ecological health, published in March 2005, identified global fisheries as one of fi ve global systems in critical condition. This paper is one of many studies that show how on local, regional, and...
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Growing old in an older Brazil : implications of population aging on growth, poverty, public finance and service delivery
Gragnolati, Michele (contributor) - 2011
This chapter introduces the main issues associated with population aging, many of which will be investigated in detail throughout the volume. The next section describes the demographic transformation that Brazil has been experiencing and highlights its specific features, including a very rapid...
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Peru - Developing New Structured Financial Products to Channel Savings Towards Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Growth
World Bank - 2012
The objective of this study is to contribute to the development of new structured financial products in Peru, in particular as means to address the problems of access to finance faced by underserved segments such as Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This document reviews how structured...
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Madagascar - Savings and Loans
World Bank - 2012
The first savings and loan associations (SLAs - mutuelles d'epargne et de credit) were established in Madagascar in … the costs of delivering financial services and where savings can be more readily mobilized to support growth. …
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Petroleum Supply Reforms Could Yield Huge Savings
World Bank - 2012
Petroleum supply reforms could yield huge savings. Training flourishes in the informal sector. Credit is a constraint …
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