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Sector Investment Programs in Africa: Issues and Experiences.

Jones, S.P. - World Bank Group - 1997

Sector Investment Programs (SIPs) are an important initiative for addressing several weaknesses of development aid practice. A SIP is an integrated program comprising a strategy for the sector, a government expenditure program, a management framework providing for common implementation...

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Slavery and human trafficking international law and the role of the World Bank

Solla, Perez; Fernanda, Maria - World Bank Group - 2009

This paper reviews the international legal framework applicable to the World Bank and member states on contemporary forms of slavery, in particular, trafficking. The Palermo trafficking protocol is specially analyzed. Moreover, the paper refers to the preventive framework constituted by human...

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Child labor handbook

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Tzannatos, Zafiris - World Bank Group - 2002

This paper surveys many aspects and issues of child labor, including its causes and effects as well as policies associated with it. Child labor has come to be considered an expression of poverty, both a cause and an effect of underdevelopment. Child labor cannot be viewed in isolation from...

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Creating partnerships with working children and youth

Miljeteig, Per - World Bank Group - 2000

If children do not have voice, they cannot be heard. And, if we are to fully understand child labor, working children and youth should speak out on their situation. While in recent years this observation (that it is necessary to include the perspective of working children and youth as well as...

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Child labor, education, and children's rights

Betcherman, Gordon; Fares, Jean; Luinstra, Amy; Prouty, … - World Bank Group - 2004

Child labor is widespread, and bad for development, both that of the individual child, and of the society and economy in which she, or he lives. If allowed to persist to the current extent,child labor will prevent the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty, and...

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Rural development : from vision to action

McCalla, Alex F. (contributor); Ayres, Wendy S. (contributor) - 1997

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India Development Update, April 2015

World Bank Group - 2015

The India Development Update for April 2015 has two main aims. First, it reports on the key developments over the past …

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Electric Mobility in India : Accelerating Implementation

World Bank Group - 2021

undertaken by the World Bank to review the development of e-mobility in India, identify remaining challenges and mitigation … measures to support India's electric mobility vision. This report presents the findings of the analysis and lays out a set of …

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Water in Circular Economy and Resilience : The Case of Chennai, India

World Bank Group - 2021

Chennai, a city on the southeastern coast of India and the state capital of Tamil Nadu, has one of the world's fastest …-growing economies. Chennai is the automotive hub for India and is also home to several other industries ranging from petrochemicals to … Economy and Resilience (WICER) system. This case study focuses on the experience of Chennai in India …

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FY 2021 India Country Opinion Survey Report

World Bank Group - 2021

The Country Opinion Survey in India assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in India perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments …, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in India on 1) their views regarding the …

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