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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 …
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"The authors examine the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. They calibrate … simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of … development. They then use these models to assess the empirical relevance of poverty traps and their consequences for policy. The …
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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 … vulnerable to water shocks and water being a constraint on growth and poverty reduction. The development of Mozambique Country … supporting its approach and priorities. It is consistent with the country's development priorities as defined in Second Poverty …
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challenges are many. People living in extreme poverty frequently have multiple needs that require a range of services. They also … available programs. At the World Bank, committed to helping countries eradicate extreme poverty and alleviate hunger, the first …'s targeted extreme poverty reduction program, Chile Solidario. The program, which twins regular visits from social workers with a …
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The foundation of good corporate governance is the intellectual honesty of directors and senior management. This intellectual honesty is expressed by acting in the best interests of the incapacitated company. The company, on formation, is a person, but it is absolutely incapacitated until its...
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Activists are often unhappy with the laws governing business behavior and with their enforcement. One strategy they use to alter the behavior of corporations is to target not the laws but the corporations, hoping that they will change without being legally obliged to. Sometimes firms do, because...
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The Palestinian Authority is committed to improving state-citizen relations through various mechanisms including the complaints resolution. The objective of this technical assistance, which has been undertaken at the request of the DGC, is to strengthen the Complaint Handling Mechanisms (CHMs)...
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