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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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Tanzania Economic Update, July 2021 : Transforming Tourism - Toward a Sustainable, Resilient, and Inclusive Sector

World Bank Group - 2021

The pandemic severely disrupted economic activity in Tanzania, and the World Bank's latest firm-level data suggest that the situation had only modestly improved by the end of 2020. New data sources show that COVID-19 continues to weigh heavily on employment and income. Data for the first quarter...

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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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Demand Analysis for Tourism in African Local Communities

World Bank Group - 2018

This report aims to provide a market overview that describes the main characteristics and size of current and future demand for tourism products delivered by and based in local communities in Africa. If demand is better understood, supply can be better developed and better placed to take...

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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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Rebuilding Tourism Competitiveness : Tourism Response, Recovery and Resilience to the COVID-19 Crisis

World Bank Group - 2020

The travel and tourism industry was one of the first sectors to be affected by COVID-19. Since March, the entire value chain that defines the industry - spanning airlines, bus and train companies, cruise lines, hotels, restaurants, attractions, travel agencies, tour operators,online travel...

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Dominican Republic Forest Note : Opportunities for Employment, Tourism, and Energy

World Bank Group - 2020

The objectives of this country forest note (CFN) are to identify and determine how to address key opportunities and challenges for sustainable forestry and forest-smart interventions in the Dominican Republic. Essential questions addressed by the CFN are the importance of forests and how the...

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Blue Tourism in Islands and Small Tourism-Dependent Coastal States : Tools and Recovery Strategies

World Bank Group - 2022

Small island developing states and small tourism-dependent coastal states have been the most gravely impacted by global climate and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic crises and are expected to face even greater economic and social challenges in the years to come. While information and...

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FY 2020 Romania Country Opinion Survey Report

World Bank Group - 2020

The Country Opinion Survey in Romania assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in Romania 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 Romania on 1) their views regarding the …

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Markets and People : Romania Country Economic Memorandum

World Bank Group - 2020

Romania's income per capita has increased from 26 percent of the EU-28 average in 2000 to 63 percent in 2017, but this …, public or private, domestic or foreign, face the same set of rules. Romania's human capital accumulation--proxied by the … in education outcomes remain relevant across and within regions of Romania. Learning gaps in primary and secondary …

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