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Yokohama Development Knowledge Sourcebook
World Bank Group - 2018
The City of Yokohama offers useful lessons for other cities seeking to achieve sustainable urban development. It simultaneously managed rapid economic growth and a sharp rise in population through a series of thoughtfully conceived and well" integrated development projects and regulative...
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Credit Reporting Knowledge Guide 2019
World Bank Group - 2019
Access to finance is an essential component of economic development and job creation. A host of studies have shown a positive correlation between financial development and economic growth. Access to finance is also critical for larger corporations and conglomerates, which, given their size,...
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Impact of Counseling on Knowledge, Feelings and Actions of Over-Indebted Borrowers in Tajikistan
World Bank Group - 2016
opportunities for savings. In order to assess the impact of counseling campaigns on consumers' knowledge about their financial …
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World Bank Knowledge Sharing and Reuse Incentive Framework
World Bank Group - 2019
This document presents an incentive framework aiming to improve knowledge sharing (KS) and reusing behaviors at the … World Bank. Given the nature of the Bank's work, evidence suggests that effective and efficient knowledge sharing might be … assessing the psychological drivers of and barriers to knowledge sharing. The authors carried out a behavioral diagnostic which …
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Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
World Bank Group - 2021
Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails a fleeting transition from childhood to adulthood,...
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Adolescent Pregnancy in the Dominican Republic
World Bank Group - 2020
Over the past several decades, robust economic growth and sustained poverty reduction have made the Dominican Republic (DR) a regional success story, yet the country's adolescent pregnancy rate remains far above the average for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and is closer to the levels...
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Adolescent Girls in Malawi : Introduction and Overview
World Bank Group - 2016
. Poverty and ethnic minority status can further magnify gender discrepancies for youth worldwide, as reductions in household …
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Adolescent Girls in Malawi : Executive Summary
World Bank Group - 2016
. Poverty and ethnic minority status can further magnify gender discrepancies for youth worldwide, as reductions in household …
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Adolescent Girls in Zambia : Executive Summary
World Bank Group - 2015
causing high population growth but also creating a large share of youth dependents, giving way to higher dependency ratios …
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A Second Chance to Develop the Human Capital of Out-of-School Youth and Adults : The Philippines Alternative Learning System
World Bank Group - 2018
, DepEd has operated parallel education systems for youth and adults who did not complete basic formal education. The current …
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