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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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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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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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islands in Malaysia. The TOPIC Toolbox supports island decision-makers in identifying technologies and a potential mix of … effectively in specific island contexts with viability impacted by many different aspects including the volumes and type of … global assessment of plastic waste management on islands with a review of existing technologies and their viability in island …
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The rapid review confirms that Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are socially, culturally, and … island countries have uniquely fragile water resources due to their small size, lack of natural storage, competing land use …
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island context risks can materialize faster than elsewhere and have disproportionate consequences. Strengthening water sector …
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Image acquisition and surveying using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a very promising technology for Small Island … island contexts. Further, UAVs can capture thousands of images in a single flight and provide greater detail than satellites … technological agencies of island nations that work to operationalize UAVs as a standard data collection tool …
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Small island developing states (SIDS) are among the most exposed, vulnerable countries in the world to natural hazards …. The World Bank's programmatic technical assistance, Resilient Transport in Small Island Developing States, implemented …
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Small island developing states and small tourism-dependent coastal states have been the most gravely impacted by global … challenges in the years to come. While information and research on sustainable and blue tourism in small island developing states …
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parity (including in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand).7 Many jobs in protected area management and tourism …
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