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Nepal is emerging from a series of crippling shocks. Barely recovered from the devastation and loss wreaked by the earthquakes in April 2015, the country experienced a near total economic seizure between September 2015 and January 2016 as cross-border trade with India came to a halt. The...
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This report sheds light on the extent to which earnings mobility and inequality of opportunity in access to the labor market have contributed to the increase in earnings inequality in Mauritius. Among the most important concerns about rising inequality is a situation where people become trapped...
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A decade of rapid economic growth has supported upward mobility and the expansion of the middle class in the Philippines. While the Philippines' record of economic growth has been sound, many East Asian countries have performed better, resulting in higher levels of economic mobility and more...
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Thailand is the twentieth most populous country in the world, located at the center of Southeast Asia. The southern end … of the country is a peninsula with the Andaman Sea to the west and Gulf of Thailand. Located in the tropical region …, Thailand's climate is relatively warm all year round. Thailand has experienced negative growth due to the impacts form the …
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system covers the large informal sector in Thailand at all times, not only during crises …
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Thailand is widely considered progressive among developing and middle-income countries regarding the inclusion of … orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in Thailand is qualitative in nature. A new study led by the World Bank, in partnership … quantitative data on economic and financial outcomes for a large, statistically significant sample of LGBTI people in Thailand …
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Thailand, like many countries around the world, is in the midst of a significant plastic waste crisis. In 2019, the … government of Thailand released the Roadmap for Plastic Waste Management 2018-2030 and is developing the National action plan on …-priority catchments. The study presents the first large-scale assessment in Thailand to integrate national waste generation and waste …
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Thailand has succeeded in expanding coverage of publicly-funded and publicly-managed health insurance schemes …, following the introduction of universal health coverage policy in 2001. While Thailand's achievement of universal health … financial protection. A recent study by Thailand's health insurance system research office (HISRO) shows that utilization of …
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Thailand is widely considered progressive among developing and middle-income countriesregarding the inclusion of … orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in Thailand is qualitative in nature. A new study led by the World Bank, in partnership … quantitative data on economic and financial outcomes for a large, statistically significant sample of LGBTI people in Thailand …
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recovery in advanced economies and emerging markets and developing economies. Thailand has continued to make progress in … reducing poverty. Thailand's economic recovery is expected to accelerate in 2018, with growth projected at 4.1 percent, driven … by external demand and private consumption. Thailand is an example of an emerging market facing the innovation paradox …
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