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This policy brief highlights the key messages for policy makers from the World Bank report "Seeing the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022a). This report and "A Practical Manual on Groundwater Quality Monitoring" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022b)...
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Over the last two decades, successive governments and business leaders in the former Yugoslav Republic of (FYR) Macedonia have been actively working to transform the country's economy and put it on a higher, technology-based, growth trajectory. For a small, landlocked country with a limited...
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The Indonesia Economic Prospects (IEP) is a bi-annual World Bank report that assesses recent macroeconomic developments …
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Vision 2045 aims to significantly transform Indonesia with the target of becoming one of the world's top five economies … by the time it reaches its centenary in 2045. But is this achievable without considering Indonesia's Water Security? This …
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In 2015, a global study estimating inputs of plastic waste into the oceans ranked Indonesia as the second largest … Indonesian marine biodiversity, its communities and its economy. The Government of Indonesia (GoI) has signaled its leadership on … of this challenge. In this study, we provide the first Indonesia-wide assessment integrating local waste data with actual …
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The Republic of Indonesia, herein Indonesia, is the world's largest archipelagic state, consisting of more than 17 … Southeast Asia. Indonesia is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, including extreme events such as floods and droughts … succinctly summarize the climate risks faced by Indonesia. This includes rapid onset and long- term changes in key climate …
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Similar to many other countries around the world, the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has hit Indonesia hard. Latest …
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COVID-19 (coronavirus) has taken a heavy economic and human toll globally and in Indonesia. According to official … Indonesia (-2.1 percent) was milder than among Emerging Markets and Developing Economies, EMDEs (-4.3 percent excluding China … government's social assistance program mitigating a potentially worse outcome. Indonesia's recovery has been relatively gradual …
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Indonesia has experienced two major forest and land fire events in the past five years. According to government data … losses to Indonesia's infrastructure, and to its agriculture, industry, trade, tourism, transportation, health, and … environmental sectors. Unlike the wildfires in boreal forests of North America, land-based fires in Indonesia are man-made. Fire …
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There are close to four hundred water utilities in Indonesia with varied performance and capacity but only around half … challenge to the operational efficiency of many of Indonesia's water utilities. This case study is part of a series prepared by …
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