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Revitalizing Low-Income Public Housing Through Community Participation in the UK

World Bank - 2012

Poverty is at the root of the problems facing many public housing projects in the U.K. today. Experience emerging from 100 low-income housing estates echoes findings from urban upgrading for the poor in developing countries. Tackling poverty and unemployment in low income communities cannot be...

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AML/CFT Regulation : Implications for Financial Service Providers that Serve Low-Income People

World Bank - 2013

This report on anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) regulation addresses the consequences of these regulations on low-income people. The introduction of new or tightened AML/CFT regulations may have the unintended and undesirable consequence of reducing the...

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Green Cities : Sustainable Low-Income Housing in Brazil

World Bank - 2013

Housing development has direct and indirect impacts on the environment. Through its design, construction, and operation, housing represents a significant point of direct consumption of natural materials, water, and energy. Therefore, greenhouse gas emissions embodied in housing can be very...

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Diversification, innovation, and imitation inside the global technological frontier

Lederman, Daniel - 2006

the empirical relationship between economic development and (1) inside-the-frontier-innovation as reflected by the …-the-frontier innovation as reflected in patents. The data suggest, unsurprisingly, that inside-the-frontier innovation is more common among … changes in the industrial composition of exports. The authors use a simple model of innovation and imitation to test the …

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Do government policies that promote competition encourage or discourage new product and process development in low and middle-income countries?

Clarke, George - 2005

not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in … of competition and, consequently, assesses their net impact on innovation. He finds that reducing tariffs and enacting … and enforcing competition laws modestly increases both the pressure that firms feel regarding innovation and the level of …

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Tunisia - Development Policy Review : Towards Innovation-driven Growth

World Bank - 2012

integration, innovation policies and enabling environment reforms (macro stability, economic regulation and governance, financial … unemployment; chapter three examines the strengths and weaknesses of Tunisia's innovation system and strategies and proposes reform … could further contribute to innovation and productivity growth; chapters five discusses the key improvement in the enabling …

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Managing Agricultural Production Risk : Innovations in Developing Countries

World Bank - 2012

formal mechanisms; approaches to agricultural risk in developed countries; innovation in managing production risk - index …

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Managing Agricultural Production Risk : Innovations in Developing Countries

World Bank - 2013

formal mechanisms; approaches to agricultural risk in developed countries; innovation in managing production risk - index …

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Innovation in Disaster Risk Financing for Developing Countries

World Bank - 2011

developing countries. Section two examines examples of innovation in the private insurance and capital markets that may have … considers how innovation is taking seed in creative disaster micro insurance programs in low- and middle-income countries …

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Economic opportunities for women in the East Asia and Pacific Region

Ellis, Amanda - 2010

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