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Slovakia Catching-Up Regions 4 - Open Data in Regional Land Use Planning
World Bank - 2023
Land use planning is one of the most important policy instruments for urban and regional development aiming to meet the needs of the populations while considering various factors such as environmental sustainability, economic development, and social well-being. The process of land use planning...
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Agglomeration, transport, and regional development in Indonesia
Deichmann, Uwe (contributor) - 2005
"How effective are public interventions in addressing significant regional disparities in formal manufacturing concentration in a developing economy? Deichmann, Kaiser, Lall, and Shalizi examine the aggregate and sectoral geographic concentration of manufacturing industries for Indonesia, and...
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Sri Lanka Development Forum : The Economy, Regional Disparities, and Global Opportunities
World Bank - 2012
This report is intended to inform the discussions of the Sri Lanka Development Forum. Specifically, section One reviews recent economic performance, the status of macroeconomic management and the strategic directions outlined in Mahinda Chintana. It notes that the recent acceleration in Sri...
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The Regional Balkans Infrastructure Study Update : Enhancing Regional Connectivity, Identifying Impediments and Priority Remedies
World Bank - 2015
In an effort to further develop the South East Europe transport observatory (SEETO) comprehensive network, integrate it in the European Union's (EU) Trans-European transport (TEN-T) network and strengthen the underlying transport planning systems, a grant was awarded by the Western Balkans...
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Reshaping Economic Geography of East Africa : From Regional to Global Integration, Volume 2. Technical Annexes
World Bank - 2012
Five East African countries Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda have made solid progress on integrating regionally in the East African Community (EAC) since 1999. Such advances are crucial, as integration in East Africa has the potential for higher than usual benefits: Burundi, Rwanda,...
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Reshaping Economic Geography of East Africa : From Regional to Global Integration (Vol. 1 of 2)
World Bank - 2012
Five East African countries Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda have made solid progress on integrating regionally in the East African Community (EAC) since 1999. Such advances are crucial, as integration in East Africa has the potential for higher than usual benefits: Burundi, Rwanda,...
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Regional Vaccine Manufacturing and Development
World Bank - 2023
COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on the ASEAN region, which has recorded over 27 million cases of the virus. Despite rapid development of a range of COVID-19 vaccines using innovative technologies, access to these vaccines has been a challenge, with manufacturing mostly concentrated in the...
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Poland - Convergence to Europe : The Challenge of Productivity Growth - Investment Climate Assessment
World Bank - 2012
encompass a very broad agenda, but in Poland's case such a challenge boils down to the objective of reducing the convergence … productivity and competitiveness. The Poland Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is the first ICA piloted in the World Bank …. The Poland ICA provides benchmark data to assess firm-level performance in other countries in the Europe and Central Asia …
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Endogenous institution formation under a catching-up strategy in developing countries
Lin, Justin Yifu - 2008
"This paper explores endogenous institution formation under a catching-up strategy in developing countries. Since the catching-up strategy is normally against the compartive advantages of the developing countries, it can not be implemented through laissez-faire market mechanisms, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520965
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Is the developing world catching up? : global convergence and national rising dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2008
"The present study uses the GIDD, a CGE-microsimulation model for Global Income Distribution Dynamics, to understand the ex-ante dynamics of global income distribution. Three main robust results emerge. First, under a set of realistic assumptions, there will be a reduction in global income...
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