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Philippines - Transport for Growth : An Institutional Assessment of Transport Infrastructure
World Bank - 2012
Infrastructure needs in the Philippines must be addressed to ensure long term economic growth. After several years of fiscal pressure, the Philippines is now in a position to address these needs. Despite the current international financial situation, the country is now in a position to commit...
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Right-to-work? : assessing India's employment guarantee scheme in Bihar
Dutta, Puja - 2014
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Long-term financial incentives and investment in daughters : evidence from conditional cash transfers in north India
Sinha, Nistha - 2009
"Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son …
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Supporting Impact Evaluation Studies in Water Supply and Sanitation in India
World Bank - 2015
impact evaluation studies in water supply and sanitation in India (P144956)’ implemented by the World Bank’s Water and … in India and also facilitated data driven analytical work and capacity building. Specific contributions of the TA are the … challenges India is facing in water and sanitation access and the extreme complexity of the institutional systems for the …
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Climate Change Impacts in Drought and Flood Affected Areas : Case Studies in India
World Bank - 2012
objective of this report is to promote the mainstreaming and integration of climate related risks in India's development …
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Uruguay - Policy Options for Improving the Efficiency of Uruguay???s Railway Sector : Consolidated Report
World Bank - 2012
The aim of this paper is to review the state of the productive infrastructure of Uruguay and the development policies that govern it and to propose policy options for the long term contribution to achieving a higher level of economic and sustainable development, based on the premise that there...
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Railways in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank - 2012
The changed role of rail in Africa over the last thirty years has seen it move from a situation where many of the systems were carrying a high share of their country's traffic to one in which their market share has declined, their assets have steadily deteriorated, their quality of service has...
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Tracks from the Past, Transport for the Future : China's Railway Industry 1990-2008 and Its Future Plans and Possibilities
World Bank - 2012
This report describes and explains how, in the period 1990-2008, China's railway sector has contributed and responded to the incredibly challenging transport demands generated by China's economic development, and highlights the plans and possibilities that lie ahead. In 1949, China had only...
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Zimbabwe Infrastructure Dialogue in Roads, Railways, Water, Energy, and Telecommunication Sub-Sectors
World Bank - 2012
In the 1990s, Zimbabwe's economic growth began to slow following a balance of payments crisis and repeated droughts. By the late 1990s Zimbabwe's economy was in serious trouble driven by economic mismanagement, political violence, and the wider impact of the land reform program on food...
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Railways in Developing Countries : A Global Review
World Bank - 2022
As a green mode of transportation, railways have an important role to play in decarbonizing transport through shifting transport from more polluting modes of transport such as road and air. Railways can enable economic growth, which in turn generates increasing transport demand, while keeping...
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