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Ethiopia Economic Update 7 : Special Topic - Poverty and Household Welfare in Ethiopia, 2011-16

World Bank Group - 2019

Ethiopia's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth, while still strong, decelerated to 7.7 percent in FY2018. A slowdown in industrial growth, mainly driven by lower growth in construction due to foreign exchange shortages and higher prices of imported construction materials, coupled with...

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Uganda Economic Update, 10th Edition, December 2017 : Accelerating Uganda's Development, Ending Child Marriage, Educating Girls

World Bank Group - 2017

Following decades of sustained economic growth during which Uganda made dramatic progresstowards poverty reduction, the country has recently experienced a period of economic growthslow down. To return to higher rates of economic growth and poverty reduction, the Government mustaddress...

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Hopes, Costs and Uneven Burden : The Impacts of Labor Influx from Road Projects on Women and Girls in Rural Malawi

World Bank Group - 2019

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Measuring Rural Access : Update 2017/18

World Bank Group - 2019

Transport connectivity is an essential part of the enabling environment for inclusive and sustained growth. In many developing countries, particularly in Africa, most people are still not connected to local, regional, or global markets. Such rural accessibility is crucial to reduce poverty and...

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Mozambique Economic Update, December 2019 : Mind the Rural Investment Gap

World Bank Group - 2019

As 2019 drew to a close, a year when Mozambique faced devastation caused by two severe cyclones, the country looks ahead having made significant progress in terms of economic stability, having strengthened its external buffers and having improved its fiscal position. The metical has been broadly...

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Toward a Universal Measure of What Works on Rural Water Supply : Rural Water Metrics Global Framework

World Bank Group - 2017

One of the most pervasive development issues related to the provision of rural water supply and sanitation services (RWSS) is their lack of sustainability. Assessing and measuring sustainability is a difficult task for which there has not emerged a consensus on which indicators to use. Unlike in...

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Thailand Rural Income Diagnostic : Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Farmers

World Bank Group - 2022

This report applies the framework to diagnose the opportunities and constraints faced by the rural economy and households and to assess policy options to address these constraints. The approach builds on four steps. The first step consists in examining the socio-demographic profile and living...

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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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