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This document provides an overview of needs and gaps in regard to early warning and response capabilities in Tonga. It consolidates information gathered in: (i) August 2014 during an early warning system (EWS) needs assessment to inform the development of the World Bank's Pacific resilience...
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Economic growth in Emerging East Asia reached a cyclical peak of 7.2 percent in 2004 from which it is expected to slow only moderately to about 6 percent in 2005 and 2006. The tragic tsunami disaster, while it had a horrendous impact in terms of loss of life, is expected to have only a limited...
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The 2007 financial crisis has exposed major weaknesses in global financial systems, including the threat to financial stability posed by banks that were too big, interconnected and complex to be closed or go bankrupt. As a result, many banks have been rescued using public support, allowing for...
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In the aftermath of the 2007/08 financial crisis, and lacking sufficient coordinated guidelines or legislation, measures to address failing financial institutions in European Union (EU) Member States were taken at national level. In an effort to improve cross border coordination as well as to...
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This report examines the role of infrastructure in explaining why the region lags so far behind the rest of the country. More importantly, it looks at how improved infrastructure may help the region catch up. Infrastructure is examined here through its impact on social as well as economic...
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treatment plants. This case study documents San Luis Potosi, Mexico …
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treatment plants. This case study documents Atotonilco de Tula, Mexico …
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economic growth. In general, Mexico's federal government has a solid competition policy framework in place. Subnational … assessment tool (MCPAT) application to various subnational governments in Mexico and the initial reform experience. It draws on …
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The development process in Mexico has been partly framed by a set of defining characteristics as well as by significant … opened the economy to trade and liberalized domestic markets. In the social sectors, Mexico has led the way among emerging … transform the country over the last 30 years. Aside from reforms and policies that have improved outcomes, Mexico has, at least …
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+) or other natural resource management projects in Mexico. The report applies a behavioral science lens to uncover key …'s qualitative analysis also reveals activities that rural women in Mexico will prefer to undertake in light of the upcoming forestry … programs to be implemented in Mexico by CONAFOR (Mexico's National Forest Commission) and the World Bank. The report concludes …
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