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Alleviating poverty through direct assistance and economic growth is an important objective of the World Bank. For this strategy to succeed, all potential impediments to the competitiveness of export industries must be tackled and reduced. Informational trade performance and efficiency are...
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Since approximately 1990, most countries in Latin America have embarked on a unilateral process of trade liberalization for agricultural and non-agricultural products, effectively putting an end to four decades of import-substitution policies. Most countries adopted tariffication, with bound...
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Many developing countries enforce seed regulations and other policies that obstruct private companies from operating and delivering new technology. This volume presents recommendations and selected papers from an international workshop organized by the World Bank in 1995 to review seed policies...
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countries of Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The trade policies of these countries are examined, and a series of … impacts on sensitive domestic industries in Vietnam. …
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The study explores important trends in consumption patterns in European Union(EU) markets and assesses the degree to which these patterns offer opportunities for African exporters.
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OECD trade barriers did not play a significant role in Sub-Saharan Africa's declining position in world trade over the last three decades. The detrimental effects of the African countries' own policies, such as those that influence international transport costs, were considerably more important....
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The Country Opinion Survey in Vietnam assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in Vietnam 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 Vietnam on 1) their views regarding the …
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selection (GBSS) in Vietnam in terms of demographic projections and policy reforms to inform decision makers and program …
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Vietnam is a Southeast Asian nation with an extensive coastline and diverse but generally warm climate including … coastal lowlands and deltas and rural areas face issues of poverty and deprivation, Vietnam has been ranked among the five … Vietnam. This includes rapid onset and long- term changes in key climate parameters, as well as impacts of these changes on …
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