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The Country Opinion Survey in Gabon assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Gabon perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private...
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study of infrastructure PPP projects in Japan under the knowledge development component. Japan is highly exposed to natural … disaster risks ranging from earthquake, tsunami, cyclone, floods, and landslides to volcanic eruptions. Japan's experience in …
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direct and indirect economic impacts. Japan has built the resilience of its WSS services through an adaptive management …
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The cities of Japan are an exceptional source of learning on competitiveness of cities. They have recovered from … unique development experience of Japan for broad dissemination to development practitioners, government officials, academia … and the private sector. The team would like to gratefully acknowledge the Government of Japan and its continued support of …
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healthy, safe sand resilient cities. Japan's effective use of building regulations to reduce risk is a compelling success … story and provides a number of relevant lessons for low- and middle-income countries. Japan has proven that effective …
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from the development experience of Kyoto City, the imperial capital of Japan for more than a thousand years and home to 14 …
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development, Japan has developed several forward-looking ICT for DRM. This report highlights the application of ICT for DRM in two …
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supply chain: even distant disasters can bring local industrial production to a halt. For example, the Great East Japan … Earthquake (GEJE) ultimately affected more than 5,000 of the 30,000 parts used in General Motors vehicles, even though Japan was … considered only a minor supplier for the Detroit-based company (Sheffi 2018). The objective of this case study on Japan is to …
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Following the magnitude (Mw) 7.8 Turkiye-Syria Earthquake on February 6, 2023, and the (Mw) 6.3 earthquake on February 20, 2023, the World Bank launched the Syria Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA). The objective of the RDNA is to estimate the impact of the earthquake on physical assets...
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A new report from the World Bank Group focuses on the trends in foreign direct investment (FDI), which encompasses foreign investment in new or existing firms and production facilities. FDI is a subset of overall capital flows, but it is perhaps the most critical because of its potential...
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