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Women are significantly underrepresented in the water workforce. Multiple barriers, ranging from social norms, to inadequate HR policies, to an unwelcoming work environment, pose challenges to female water professionals' entering, staying and advancing in the water sector. This study explores...
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Gender equality has long been central to the World Bank's twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared … region in the context of the region's demographic transition. There has been a proliferation of World Bank projects with … operationalization. This note lays out a pragmatic Operational Approach to enhancing women's and girls' empowerment in World Bank …
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To permanently end poverty and hunger by 2030, the world needs a food system that can feed every person, every day … better steward the world's natural resources. Urgently, we need a food system that is more resilient and that shifts from …
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being provided in a world shaped by climate change. This is the fourth edition of the Joint Report on MDB Climate Finance …
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The world economy is experiencing a very strong but uneven recovery, with many emerging market and developing economies … Global Economic Prospects. The Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic …
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This country economic memorandum aims to support Niger's efforts to walk on a path conducive to a resilient and sustainable economic growth. It does so by attempting to answer the following five questions, each of which constitutes a separate chapter: (i) what were the salient structural...
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Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects, with a …
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alleviation. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and …
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systems. Growing populations, rising incomes, and expanding cities will converge upon a world where the demand for water rises …
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Cities in the developing world are rapidly expanding, boosting countries' economies, reducing poverty, and fueling … range of shocks and stresses that cities may encounter. The flagship report -- co-authored by the World Bank Group and the … poverty and promoting shared prosperity. And while, over the last five years, the World Bank Group has financed more than USD …
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