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Trade and Humanitarian Emergencies : A Survey of Trade Policy Issues Affecting Disaster Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
World Bank Group - 2014
The initial hours and days after a humanitarian emergency are generally seen as the most important. Because they affect the rapid deployment of relief to people in need, international trade policies, and the way in which they are implemented, can make an enormous difference to the effectiveness...
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Maximizing the Development Impacts from Temporary Migration : Recommendations for Australia's Seasonal Worker Program
World Bank Group - 2017
locations), and tourism sector (the Northern Australia tourism pilot). This paper assesses the first of these objectives …
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The Social Impacts of Seasonal Migration : Lessons from Australia's Seasonal Worker Program for Pacific Islanders
World Bank Group - 2018
The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) is a temporary migration scheme between Australia and selected Pacific Island …
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Sustainability Review 2023
World Bank Group - 2024
The 2023 Sustainability Review is a reflection of how the World Bank embodies its core values of impact, integrity …, respect, teamwork, and innovation. The Review highlights World Bank activities undertaken in fiscal 2022 and 2023 to manage … the environmental, social, and economic impacts of internal business operations. The review complements the World Bank …
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The World Bank Group : learning from the past, embracing the future
World Bank Group - 1994 - 1. print
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2010 world investment and political risk
2010
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Ending Poverty and Hunger by 2030
World Bank Group - 2015
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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Commodity Markets Outlook, April 2015
World Bank Group - 2015
The decline in commodity prices that began with metals and agriculture four years ago—joined by crude oil in mid-2014—continued in 2015Q1 (Figure 1). Energy, metals, and agricultural prices were down 28, 11, and 5 percent, respectively, from the previous quarter. Increasing supplies, bumper...
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A National Biodiversity Offset Scheme
World Bank Group - 2015
Liberia had an estimated 4.3 million hectares of forests in 2011, comprising approximately 50 percent of Liberia’s landmass. These forests support very high levels of biodiversity, provide a wide range of ecosystem services (for example, bush meat, medicines, construction materials, and...
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2014 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance
World Bank Group - 2015
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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