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Groundwater Quality : A Strategic Approach
World Bank Group - 2022
This policy brief highlights the key messages for policy makers from the World Bank report "Seeing the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022a). This report and "A Practical Manual on Groundwater Quality Monitoring" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022b)...
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Vietnam National and Provincial Primary Health Care Scorecards
World Bank Group - 2019
This report aims to provide insights into how health services are delivered at the grassroots level to support the expansion of access to quality health services in Vietnam with a focus on primary health care (PHC). It intends to identify any challenges in this area and emphasize the importance...
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Strengthening Oversight : Improving the Quality of Statutory Audits in the Philippines
World Bank Group - 2016
Since 2003, the Philippines have been striving to implement reforms aimed at improving audit quality. Oversight of the audit profession is a key control over the financial reporting architecture of a country's private sector. A Quality Assurance Review system over audit practitioners is a subset...
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Air Quality Management in Poland
World Bank Group - 2019
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Air Quality Management in Bosnia and Herzegovina
World Bank Group - 2019
Cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) experience high ambient concentrations of health-damaging fine particulate air pollution in Europe. This report is one in a series of three reports on air quality management in BiH, Kosovo, and North Macedonia. This report examines the nature and magnitude...
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Regional Note on Air Quality Management in the Western Balkans : Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and North Macedonia
World Bank Group - 2020
Ambient air pollution (AAP) is a serious global health problem that accounts for an estimated 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide per year. People in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans are frequently exposed to air pollution levels above those considered safe, particularly in the winter....
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Air Quality Management in Tajikistan
World Bank Group - 2023
The Air Quality Management (AQM) system in Tajikistan needs strengthening in its key policy and institutional as well as technical aspects to reduce health impacts of air pollution in the most polluted airsheds (Dushanbe and other urban centers). The World Bank's first engagement to strengthen...
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Clean Air and Cool Planet, Volume II : Integrated Air Quality Management and Greenhouse Gas Reduction for Almaty and Nur-Sultan
World Bank Group - 2022
This study delivers evidence of the main causes of premature deaths from air pollution in Almaty and Nur-Sultan, two major cities in Kazakhstan, and offers guidance on cost-effective solutions to prevent them while making the cities better prepared for a low-carbon future. The report provides...
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Sustainable Lowland Agriculture Development in Indonesia
World Bank Group - 2021
will need to undergo a transformation. While the contribution of Indonesia's agriculture sector to national gross domestic … freshwater swamp forest with their specific flora and fauna. Despite the significance of lowland agriculture for the achievement … Indonesia, lowland agriculture must overcome several challenges if it is to realize its full potential …
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Vietnam : Science, Technology, and Innovation Report 2020
World Bank Group - 2021
The science, technology, and innovation (STI) report provide analytical support for Vietnam's upcoming ten-year STI strategy 2021-2030 and the socio-economic development strategy (SEDS) 2021-2030. The STI report and the accompanying policy brief have been prepared in response to a request from...
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