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correlated with observed cases of trafficking. For instance, the economic shock produced by a typical decrease in export …
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correlated with observed cases of trafficking. For instance, the economic shock produced by a typical decrease in export …
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Governments face growing contingent liabilities from disasters as they tend to shoulder a significant share of disaster response and recovery costs. Disaster shocks increase government expenditure and hamper economic activities. An increasing number of countries are developing financial...
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children … learning deficits. All this means that the world was already far off track for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 4, which … shock to all education systems in our lifetimes. The damage will become even more severe as the health emergency translates …
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Tunisia's infrastructure sectors (transport, electricity, water and sanitation, and information and communication technology …) carried out by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Tunisia …
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makes it the third largest population in the world without access to electricity. The report explores the current state of …The main priority for the Democratic Republic of Congo's power sector is to increase access to electricity. The … Democratic Republic of Congo is a large country with 10 million households of which 1.6 million have access to electricity. This …
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The objective of the report is to present the state of the underheating in Georgia and to quantify the economic costs of underheating. It presents estimates of the economic benefits of energy efficiency interventions that reduce underheating in Georgia. It also presents an indicative cost of the...
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This report examines the state of female entrepreneurship in Indonesia, outlines major binding constraints and gender gaps, and highlights the untapped potential that could be realized if key barriers were lifted. The report draws on quantitative analysis of household- and firm-level surveys,...
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report sets out the principles and practices of BESS economic analysis as required for the World Bank's appraisal of …
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power shortages during peak winter and summer months. With Palestinian electricity demand projected to grow at an average … volumes of imports. However, Jordanian electricity is currently more expensive than Israeli power due to heavy reliance on LNG … electricity demand, meaning that the amount of power available for export may not be so large relative to Palestinian needs …
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