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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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The handwashing handbook advocates handwashing-with-soap programs to fight the spread of disease. It covers the following components: laying the foundation for a National Handwashing Program; understanding the consumer; and implementing the program. The handbook explains how to research consumer...
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"This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors … propose that households under violence decide jointly on migration and saving, because a higher asset-stock is more difficult … migration decision has been taken, savings can increase as a function of violence to ensure a minimum bundle to carry. Empirical …
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"This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead …. Household saving in China is relatively high compared with OECD countries. However, much of China's high economywide saving, and … the difference between China and other countries, are due to unusually high enterprise and government saving. Moreover …
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"The author analyzes sectoral patterns of investment and saving in China-over time and compared with other countries …-to shed light on the factors driving high investment and on how saving is channeled into investment. The findings inform … explains most of the variation over time; (2) high household saving explains only a part of the large difference in national …
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rely solely on household savings for purchasing a house. These findings underscore the urgent need to improve savings …
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saving. Genuine saving adjusted to reflect population growth exhibits the worst fit with theory. Both gross saving and … genuine saving perform better, with good concordance with theory, while genuine saving exhibits a moderate advantage in terms …"The World Bank has been publishing estimates of adjusted net or "genuine" saving since 1999. This measure of saving …
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national saving using a panel of 43 industrial and developing countries. The authors find evidence suggesting that the … accumulation of pension fund financial assets might increase national saving when these funds are the result of a mandatory pension … program. By contrast, national saving might be unaffected when pension funds are the result of a public program implemented to …
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