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Group-based lending programs for the poor have become a focus of attention in the development community over the last several years. To date, there has been no comprehensive investigation of their impact on household behavior that has been sufficiently attentive to issues of endogeneity and...
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and less predictable, and sea levels rise. This World Bank Group Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) shows …
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the world's highest levels of exposure to floods and extreme heat. However, building climate resilience also offers an … accelerated decarbonization and changing consumption and production patterns in the rest of the world. With the right policy …
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new World Bank flagship report, 'Global Development Horizons 2011', focuses on three major international economic trends …Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way. This first edition of a …
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alleviation. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and …
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Chongqing is at a crossroads where its GDP per capita will reach a level at which cities typically decouple economic growth from energy and resource use, as well as associated carbon emissions and pollution. However, decoupling does not happen automatically. It requires cities to adopt green...
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protected areas, and expansion of agriculture and settlements. This World Bank report outlines key challenges and priority …The Lao PDR sits at the intersection of four critical ecoregions and is home to some of the world's biologically …
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, prices for both mobile communications and fixed broadband are higher in the DR than in peer countries. Following the World … Bank Group's Markets and Competition Policy Assessment Toolkit (MCPAT), this policy note provides a brief overview of key …
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series of country-level diagnostics produced by the World Bank Group (WBG) under its 2021-2025 Climate Change Action Plan …Like most countries in the world, Vietnam is increasingly seeing its development affected by climate change. With a … climate change around the world. Vietnam has historically had very low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but over the past two …
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