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Who benefits and how much? : how gender affects welfare impacts of a booming textile industry

Nicita, Alessandro - 2003

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Vertical and Regional Integration to Promote African Textiles and Clothing Exports : A Close Knit Family?

World Bank - 2012

result, Africa as a whole remains a net importer of textiles and clothing even though it is a net exporter of cotton. The … (until 2008) to protect their domestic textiles and clothing industries. These safeguards provide a brief opportunity for sub …-Saharan African producers to integrate their textiles and clothing industries both domestically and regionally. …

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Estimating household responses to trade reforms : net consumers and net producers in rural Mexico

Porto, Guido Gustavo - 2005

"This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in developing countries. It focuses on consumption and income responses: when price reforms take place, households modify consumption and production decisions and local labor markets...

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The economic consequences of health shocks

Wagstaff, Adam - 2005

"While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the economic effects of adverse health shocks, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence. The author builds on recent empirical work to explore in the context of postreform Vietnam two related issues: (1) how far household income and...

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Financial Consumer Protection and Fintech : An Overview of New Manifestations of Consumer Risks and Emerging Regulatory Approaches

World Bank - 2022

This note provides: (1) an overview of new manifestations of consumer risks that are significant and cross-cutting across four key fintech products: digital microcredit, P2PL, investment-based crowdfunding, and e-money; and (2) examples of emerging regulatory approaches to target such risks....

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The Role of Consumer Consent in Open Banking : Financial Inclusion Support Framework

World Bank - 2021

Open banking schemes provide consumers with more choice and new financial products and services through the use of technology, particularly application programing interfaces (API's). The main objective of this paper is to provide guidance on how to implement consumer consent protocols to access...

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Public Sector-operated Price-comparison Websites : Case Studies and Good Practices

World Bank - 2013

This technical note is intended to provide regulators with concrete, practical information on operating price-comparison websites and the strategic considerations necessary to take into account when designing such sites. The technical note examines price-comparison websites operated by public...

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Islamic Republic of Iran - Health Sector Review : Volume 1. Main Report

World Bank - 2012

The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stated its commitment to improving the health and nutritional status … Islamic Republic of Iran. The government is quite advanced in the type of analysis it already undertakes on various aspects of … of Iran and the World Bank on the health sector. …

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Islamic Republic of Iran - Health Sector Review : Volume 2. Background Sections

World Bank - 2012

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Iran Economic Monitor, Fall 2021 : Adapting to the New Normal - A Protracted Pandemic and Ongoing Sanctions

World Bank - 2021

Iran's economy is gradually recovering following a lost decade (2011-2020) of negligible economic growth. Less …

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