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Egypt has considerable potential to become a regional trade hub. A key challenge is how to leverage this potential to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth that benefits the country's population at large. In alignment with Egypt's decision to expand the Upper Egypt Local Development Program...
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will need to undergo a transformation. While the contribution of Indonesia's agriculture sector to national gross domestic … freshwater swamp forest with their specific flora and fauna. Despite the significance of lowland agriculture for the achievement … Indonesia, lowland agriculture must overcome several challenges if it is to realize its full potential …
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Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019 presents indicators that measure the laws, regulations and bureaucratic …
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The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The...
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(LIFT). Both the World Bank and the LIFT are actively involved in supporting Myanmar's agriculture sector given its …
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welfare, and product quality. Vietnamese agriculture now sits at a turning point. The agricultural sector now faces growing …
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What is the future for agriculture in Peru? Once the principal source of employment and income for much of the … agriculture to make up an ever smaller share of the overall economy. The future of Peruvian agriculture should concern policy … makers, for at least five reasons. First, agriculture makes up an important part of the economy, so if agricultural growth …
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In September 2017, Ghana's economy expanded for the fifth successive quarter by 9.3 percent compared to just 4.3 percent in September 2016. This reflects continued high levels of growth in the industry sector, driven by mining and petroleum. Oil production rose by 16.6 percent compared with a...
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The Philippine archipelago emerged because of the dynamic shifting and collision of four plates: Continental Eurasian plate, Indian-Australian plate, Oceanic Pacific plate, and the Philippine Sea plate. In the past 100 million years, the archipelago was welded together in an island arc...
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This report is part of a national overview of agricultural pollution in the Philippines, commissioned by the World Bank. The overview consists of three 'chapters' on the crops, livestock, and fisheries sub-sectors, and a summary report. This 'chapter' provides a broad national overview of: (a)...
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