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Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Identity, and Poverty in Mexico Urban Profile : An Exploratory Study

World Bank Group - 2001

While information exists on the process of indigenous migration to urban centers, there is very little systematic data on the current situation of urban indigenous populations in Mexico. This study analyzes the situation of five indigenous ethnic groups in three urban centers of Mexico: (a) the...

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Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies : Results from the 2017 International Comparison Program

World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2020

The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the …

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Benchmarking Public Procurement 2017 : Assessing Public Procurement Regulatory Systems in 180 Economies

World Bank Group - 2016

Despite the importance of the public procurement market, little effort has been made to systematically and consistently collect reliable statistics on a number of critical dimensions. To date, no attempt has been made to collect comparable statistics on the size of public procurement in...

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Small Claims : Where Does Serbia Stand? A Comparative Analysis

World Bank Group - 2020

Evidence suggests that poor court performance negatively affects the economy. Complaints about the business climate are often associated with complicated procedural laws and backlogs that beleaguer the system and slow it down. According to the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice...

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Indonesia Diagnostic Review of Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy : Volume 2. Comparison with Good Practices

World Bank Group - 2014

This diagnostic study was undertaken by the World Bank in response to a request from Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK), the Indonesian Financial Services Authority, and Bank Indonesia, the nation's central bank. Indonesia's financial sector has a lot of growth potential considering the relatively low...

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Balancing Workers' Protection and Labor Market Flexibility in China

World Bank Group - 2021

Across the world, governments use minimum wages, employment protection legislation, and other labor regulations that define the legal boundaries of employment to manage potential labor market imperfections. These imperfections include information asymmetry, uneven market power between employers...

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Climate Risk Country Profile : China

World Bank Group - 2021

-resilient future, helping them to be better prepared to adapt to current and future climate impacts. The People's Republic of China is … coastline. As of 2018 China contained six cities with populations over 10 million …

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At the Front Line : Reflections on the Bank's Work with China over Forty Years, 1980-2020

World Bank Group - 2021

evidence-based advice to China, but China was always in the driver's seat in structuring the relationship and in determining … Conference, at Dalian, then with the China 2020 and China 2030 reports, and the subsequent series of flagships produced jointly … local level through demonstration projects and reform pilots that China studied, adapted, and later scaled. Finally, an …

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China : 40-Year Experience in Renewable Energy Development; Policies, Achievements, and Lessons Learned

World Bank Group - 2021

China made impressive progress in developing renewable energy to provide access to clean energy and electricity to its … pollution and mitigating the impact of climate change. Through that journey, China has accumulated a considerable amount of …

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Listing State-Owned Enterprises in Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Success and Failure

World Bank Group - 2021

In this report, the authors investigate state-owned enterprise (SOE) listings as a solution to promote local capital markets development. Thus, SOE listings can offer governments an enormous opportunity to kick-start the development of their local capital markets while achieving other divestment...

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