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Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration : Capturing Lessons and Experience from Japan with a Focus on Kyoto

World Bank Group - 2018

The World Bank Group (WBG) has long recognized that the restoration and preservationof cultural heritage, urban regeneration, and sustainable tourism can play a vital role in developing countries' efforts to promote local economic development, accelerate social integration, and alleviate...

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Guatemala Study on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage : The Case of Antigua Guatemala

World Bank Group - 2019

Natural events are recurrent. Geophysical hazards such as earthquakes or volcano eruptions cannot be predicted, but it is known that where they have happened in the past, they will happen again. In the case of hydro-meteorological hazards, frequency and intensity are increased by the action of...

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Developing Nature-Based Tourism as a Strategic Sector for Green Growth in Lao PDR : Synthesis Report

World Bank Group - 2019

Lao PDR faces a great opportunity to develop its tourism sector, in particular nature-based tourism (NBT), to create greener, more resilient economic growth and good jobs from its attractive landscapes and wildlife. Throughout the world, NBT is the fastest growing segment of tourism, and the...

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Protected Areas and Tourism in Lao PDR : Policy Note

World Bank Group - 2021

Conservation and tourism contribute to greener economic growth in many countries. Although protected areas have often been viewed as land excluded from economic development for the purposes of environmental conservation, many countries have realized their powerful economic potential through...

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Rwanda Economic Update, February 2023 : Making the most of Nature Based Tourism in Rwanda

World Bank Group - 2023

The Rwandan economy continued to achieve strong growth in 2022 in the face of weakening external demand and restrictive monetary policies required to control inflation. Rising food prices particularly affected the poor, who devote a large share of their spending to food and appear to have faced...

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Uganda Economic Update 21st Edition : Leveraging Sustainable Tourism to Support Growth and Diversification

World Bank Group - 2023

Economic activity in Uganda is accelerating despite commodity-price inflation, global monetary tightening, international supply-chain bottlenecks, and a local Ebola outbreak. Real GDP growth is estimated to reach 5.7 percent in FY22/23, albeit still below the pre-COVID-19 projection of 6.5...

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WBG Support for Tourism Clients and Destinations During the COVID-19 Crisis

World Bank Group - 2020

WBG support for tourism clients and destinations during the COVID-19 crisis in the form of planning and communication, reducing tax burdens, contamination support, generating alternative revenues, minimizing revenue loss, redeploying assets, and other

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Jordan Economic Monitor, Fall 2021 : En Route to Recovery

World Bank Group - 2021

Jordan's economy is showing a healthy recovery following a moderate contraction of 1.6 percent in 2020. Notwithstanding …, accommodative monetary policy by the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) as well as fiscal policy, continued to play an active role in … supporting the economy during the pandemic, while inflation has remained low. Yet, the pandemic has left deep scars on Jordan …

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Jordan Economic Monitor, Spring 2021 : Uncertain and Long Trail Ahead

World Bank Group - 2021

Despite recent progress on vaccine developments to combat the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the global economic recovery remains surrounded by high uncertainty. During the first half of 2020, global economic output declined by an unprecedented level, resulting in a sharp fall in global trade....

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Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Assessment : Greater Amman Municipality, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

World Bank Group - 2017

The Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Program provides a framework for assessing and reporting on the strengths and weaknesses of public financial management (PFM) using quantitative indicators to measure performance. PEFA is a tool that helps governments achieve sustainable...

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