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Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers : An Initial Assessment

World Bank Group - 2019

The global sanitation workforce bridges the gap between sanitation infrastructure and the provision of sanitation services. Sanitation workers provide an essential public service but often at the cost of their dignity, safety, health, and living conditions. They are some of the most vulnerable...

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Informality, Job Quality, and Welfare in Sri Lanka

World Bank Group - 2020

Informal employment remains a salient and persistent feature of the Sri Lanka labor market, with around 70 percent of the work force informally employed. There are generally three reasons to be concerned about high informality: poverty, productivity and public finance. This report focuses on the...

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Rural development : from vision to action

McCalla, Alex F. (contributor); Ayres, Wendy S. (contributor) - 1997

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India Development Update, April 2015

World Bank Group - 2015

The India Development Update for April 2015 has two main aims. First, it reports on the key developments over the past …

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Electric Mobility in India : Accelerating Implementation

World Bank Group - 2021

undertaken by the World Bank to review the development of e-mobility in India, identify remaining challenges and mitigation … measures to support India's electric mobility vision. This report presents the findings of the analysis and lays out a set of …

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Water in Circular Economy and Resilience : The Case of Chennai, India

World Bank Group - 2021

Chennai, a city on the southeastern coast of India and the state capital of Tamil Nadu, has one of the world's fastest …-growing economies. Chennai is the automotive hub for India and is also home to several other industries ranging from petrochemicals to … Economy and Resilience (WICER) system. This case study focuses on the experience of Chennai in India …

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FY 2021 India Country Opinion Survey Report

World Bank Group - 2021

The Country Opinion Survey in India assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in India perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments …, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in India on 1) their views regarding the …

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Cox's Bazar : Inclusive Growth Diagnostic

World Bank Group - 2022

The district of Cox's Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh, is an instructive context to understand how long-standing and newer growth opportunities and constraints manifest at the local level, remote from Bangladesh's major growth poles of Dhaka and Chittagong. Potentially exacerbating Cox's...

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Resource and Case Studies Booklet : Supplement to Toward a Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development

World Bank Group - 2021

Through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the international community has recognized the need for an approach to development that considers the interdependence of human and natural systems. Single-sector approaches to development challenges are insufficient to produce sustainable...

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Seaweed Aquaculture for Food Security, Income Generation and Environmental Health in Tropical Developing Countries

World Bank Group - 2016

To meet carbon emissions targets, more than 30 countries have committed to boosting production of renewable resources from biological materials andconvert them into products such as food, animal feedand bioenergy. In a post-fossil-fuel world, an increasingproportion of chemicals, plastics,...

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