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The City of Yokohama offers useful lessons for other cities seeking to achieve sustainable urban development. It simultaneously managed rapid economic growth and a sharp rise in population through a series of thoughtfully conceived and well" integrated development projects and regulative...
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potential development effect of these disruptive technologies and proposes a role for the World Bank Group in leveraging these …
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and regulatory framework options for credit reporting systems; Chapter 5 summarizes the World Bank Group's fifteen plus … years of experience in developing credit bureaus and credit registries around the world; Chapter 6 presents an overview of …
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World Bank. Given the nature of the Bank's work, evidence suggests that effective and efficient knowledge sharing might be … confirmed the existence of five key structural barriers to knowledge sharing that had been identified in previous World Bank …
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The transition to a more innovation-based growth model is even more urgent in the current uncertain global context[1 … correlation between levels of innovation and productivity. Malaysia recognizes the need to embrace an innovation-driven growth … policy efforts through reforms and improvements to bolster educational as well as science, technology and innovation …
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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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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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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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