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The Bank Group's lending and non-lending support for environmental sustainability has increased and improved over the …, while continuing to help countries strengthen environmental governance. …
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This note summarizes lessons and practices deployed in embedding climate resilience into the design of projects that received catalytic funds from The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Facility (AFRI-RES). It draws from application of the Resilience Booster Tool to specific projects, as...
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a view to increasing productivity and reducing poverty in rural areas. Moreover, the PRECASP will finance expenditure …
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The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by … best use of safety nets, and steps to ensure the environmental sustainability of economic growth. These three elements are …
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The country water resources assistance strategy for Zambia provides an analysis of the role of water in the economy and identifies the specific challenges, development opportunities and policies which inform an agreed framework for priority areas of assistance. Zambia lies entirely within the...
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Mozambique's continuous efforts to sustain economic growth and reduce poverty face a number of constraints including … water resources. Mozambique has plentiful land and water resources that provide great potential for the production of a … vulnerable to water shocks and water being a constraint on growth and poverty reduction. The development of Mozambique Country …
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"This paper identifies systematic performance differences between younger and older democracies: younger democracies are more corrupt; exhibit less rule of law, lower levels of bureaucratic quality, and lower secondary school enrollments; and spend more on public investment and government...
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The country's approach to poverty reduction is outlined in the 2003 Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, and draws on a … development approach in which growth and poverty reduction are mutually reinforcing. Three areas of focus are identified in the … PRSP: (1) restoration of law and improvements in governance; (2) promotion of broad-based growth; and (3) promotion of …
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