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This note provides a deep dive into the quality of nighttime lights (NTL) data for Pacific Island Countries (PICs). It explores their potential to generate and complement regional socio-economic statistics. NTL data has been widely used as a proxy of economic activity. It has been used to both...
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"The authors describe and analyze water resources reform and decentralization of river basin management in the state of … Ceara, Northeast Brazil, the poorest part of the country. The Jaguaribe river basin is located entirely within the state of …
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This report presents the World Bank Group's experience in climate and disaster resilient development and contends that … collaboration between the climate resilience and disaster risk management communities through the incorporation of climate and … Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The introduction provides an overview of the UNFCCC and also introduces key …
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This report was commissioned by climate investment funds (CIF's) E and L initiative to distill lessons from CIF's pilot … program on climate resilience (PPCR) support identifying, designing, and implementing hydrometeorological and climate services … national hydrological and meteorological services to develop, deliver, and strengthen hydrometeorological and climate services …
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This study was commissioned by climate investment funds (CIF's) E and L initiative to distill lessons from CIF's pilot … program on climate resilience (PPCR) support in identifying, designing, and implementing hydrometeorological and climate … climate services. The outputs from the study comprise of one synthesis report and three country studies for Jamaica …
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This study was commissioned by climate investment funds (CIF's) E and L initiative to distill lessons from CIF's pilot … program on climate resilience (PPCR) support identifying, designing, and implementing hydrometeorological and climate services … national hydrological and meteorological agencies to develop, deliver, and strengthen hydrometeorological and climate services …
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This study discusses the impact of economic geography and (low) population density on development outcomes in Mali and … north Mali which started in 2012 and continues to date has brought questions of economic geography to the center of …
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"The paper tests three hypotheses about the causes of unemployment in the Central-East European transition economies and in a benchmark market economy (Western part of Germany). The first hypothesis (H1) is that unemployment is caused by inefficient matching. Hypothesis 2 (H2) is that...
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