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Pathways to Reducing Poverty and Sharing Prosperity in India : Schemes to Systems - Lessons from Social Protection in India

World Bank Group - 2019

countries like India aspire to grow further and navigate a phase of rapid economic transformation, investments in social … articles take stock of India's major social protection programs, including pension programs, health insurance, the public …-poverty measures in India and indeed the world, while the former are relatively new instruments for unorganized workers. However, these …

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Innovation to Strengthen Social Protection and Nutritional Support within a Tuberculosis Control Program : Evidence and Emerging Lessons from India

World Bank Group - 2022

economic investment. In line with this, the Government of India (GOI) has a target of elimination of TB by 2025, through … NPY's early implementation of DBT in three states and six districts in India …

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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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Navigating Education, Motherhood, and Informal Labor : The Experiences of Young Women in Luanda

World Bank Group - 2023

Gender equality is a key foundation of inclusive and sustainable economic development that can translate into long-term and effective poverty reduction. While gender equality matters on its own as a human right, it also offers instrumental value for individuals, households, and societies at...

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Making Pension Savings Easy and Efficient for Informal Sector Workers : Learning from Kenya's Haba Haba Pilot

World Bank Group - 2024

Haba Haba, which means "bit by bit" in Swahili, is a voluntary pension scheme in Kenya for workers in informal employment and promises to be a scheme through which they can slowly but surely save for their old age. The scheme, administered by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) was launched...

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Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Contracts in An Age of Disruption

World Bank Group - 2022

The objective of this report is to help governments of emerging economies to better understand the increasing impact of disruptive technologies on PPP infrastructure projects. The report also seeks to provide guidance on how to manage existing PPP contracts and design future ones at a time when...

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Infrastructure Finance in Armenia

World Bank Group - 2017

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Tanzania Economic Update, May 2016 : The Road Less Traveled - Unleashing Public Private Partnerships in Tanzania

World Bank Group - 2016

The Tanzanian economy has grown at an average annual rate of around 6-7 percent for more than a decade. The rate of inflation has declined since January 2016, although it trended upwards in thepreceding few months due to increases in domestic food prices and the lagged impacts of the sharp...

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Public-Private Dialogue in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations : Experiences and Lessons Learned

World Bank Group - 2014

Public-private dialogue (PPD) is highly necessary in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) to fill the gap resulting from the lack of legitimate institutions, to help create transparency and trust among stakeholders, and to identify the need for reforms and interventions that can...

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Benchmarking Public-Private Partnerships Procurement 2017

World Bank Group - 2016

Many economies are yet to adopt broadly recognized good practices to prepare, procure, and manage Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). The report flags potential improvements that can help governments fill the gap in an effort to provide better PPP procurement and enable better infrastructure...

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