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The initial hours and days after a humanitarian emergency are generally seen as the most important. Because they affect the rapid deployment of relief to people in need, international trade policies, and the way in which they are implemented, can make an enormous difference to the effectiveness...
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report focuses on the direct impact of the war on world trade and investment. It identifies five trade and investment …. The report finds that world trade will drop by 1 percent, lowering global GDP by 0.7 percent and GDP of low …
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Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...
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Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way. This first edition of a … new World Bank flagship report, 'Global Development Horizons 2011', focuses on three major international economic trends …
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The China Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) provides analysis and recommendations on integrating the … adequate mitigation and adaptation efforts, climate risks will become a growing constraint to China's long-term growth and … reforms necessary to achieve a lasting economic transformation. Hence, China will need to grow and green its economy at the …
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matter was referred to the World Bank for further analysis which is presented in this report. Potential for increased …
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drastically reduced. As a crowning achievement-and after 15 years of negotiations, Lao PDR is now a member of the World Trade …
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In the last decades, slow growth and job creation have encouraged emigration, further dampening domestic sources of growth in Nepal. Tepid growth over the past decade, the slowest in the region, has resulted in few jobs being created, leading to more Nepalese workers seeking opportunities...
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exports is about five times that of other export-driven economies such as Thailand, China and Vietnam. During the last two …
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