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Listing State-Owned Enterprises in Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Success and Failure
World Bank Group - 2021
In this report, the authors investigate state-owned enterprise (SOE) listings as a solution to promote local capital markets development. Thus, SOE listings can offer governments an enormous opportunity to kick-start the development of their local capital markets while achieving other divestment...
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Thailand Rural Income Diagnostic : Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Farmers
World Bank Group - 2022
This report applies the framework to diagnose the opportunities and constraints faced by the rural economy and households and to assess policy options to address these constraints. The approach builds on four steps. The first step consists in examining the socio-demographic profile and living...
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Getting Back on Track - Reviving Growth and Securing Prosperity for All : Thailand Systematic Country Diagnostic
World Bank Group - 2016
Thailand has made tremendous progress toward the twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared … prosperity. Notably, Thailand has achieved these gains despite high political instability, with short-lived constitutions and … constrain further progress in reducing poverty and promoting inclusion. The Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) of Thailand …
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Thailand Getting Back on Track : Reviving Growth and Securing Prosperity for All
World Bank Group - 2016
Over the past few decades, Thailand has made tremendous progress toward the twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty … and boosting shared prosperity. Thailand has achieved these gains despite high political instability. Growth has been … unsustainable. Analysis undertaken for this SCD suggests that the significant slowdown in Thailand's export growth in recent years …
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Support Development of Thailand's Draft Action Plan on Marine Plastic Debris
World Bank Group - 2022
production cost. Thailand still lacks a specific action plan and mechanism to address marine plastic debris. To this end, the … reduces waste generation from all known sources and consolidates future actions by every relevant sector. Thailand's draft …
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Thailand Economic Monitor, January 2020 : Productivity for Prosperity
World Bank Group - 2020
Thailand's economic growth slowed to 2.4 percent in Q3 2019, driven by cyclical factors, notably weak external demand …
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Sustainable Industrial Development in Punjab, Pakistan
World Bank Group - 2019
pollution that have accompanied industrialization has imposed mounting economic, environmental, and social costs. This is … industrialization at the center of its growth strategy and should modernize its policy toolkit for this purpose. Punjab's Growth …
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Key Factors for Successful Development of Offshore Wind in Emerging Markets
World Bank Group - 2021
Offshore wind holds tremendous promise for many emerging markets as a large-scale, clean, reliable form of new electricity generation with the potential to stimulate valuable economic benefits. However, developing a new offshore wind sector in an emerging market is no easy task. Decision makers...
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What Does Digital Money Mean for Emerging Market and Developing Economies? : Fintech and the Future of Finance Flagship Technical Note
World Bank Group - 2022
Physical cash and commercial bank money are dominant vehicles for retail payments around the world, including in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Yet payments in EMDEs are marked by several key deficiencies, such as lack of universal access to transaction accounts, widespread...
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Getting Down to Earth : Are Satellites Reliable for Measuring Air Pollutants That Cause Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?
World Bank Group - 2022
Outdoor air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide, the majority of which are caused by exposure to fine particulate matter (or PM2.5) air pollution. Most of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Reducing PM2.5 air pollution is thus crucial for...
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