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economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction. Note two examines internal migration in Rwanda, which is a recent … three years between 2011 and 2014. Rural-to-urban migration has increased slightly as a share of internal migration, and … with internal migration increasing overall, the absolute number of people moving from rural to urban areas has grown. The …
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Romania lags behind other European Union (EU) countries in many health outcomes. The government of Romania plans to build three new regional hospitals in the North-West (NW), North-East (NE), and South-West (SW) regions. These are envisaged to be tertiary referral hospitals providing highly...
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Poland is facing an enormous demographic change as the population age at unprecedented pace. Life expectancy is steadily increasing while birth rates for years have remained below simple replacement rate. Access to and quality of long-term care (LTC) services (support for people who are...
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return that considers all of these factors and assesses available options.The Mobility of Displaced Syrians: An Economic and … Social Analysis sheds light on the 'mobility calculus' of Syrian refugees. While dismissing any policies that imply wrongful … refugees and their mobility choices. It also explores the diversified policy toolkit that the international community has …
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and represents a significant step forward in understanding and addressing human mobility and GBV in Central America. For … of human mobility in the region. Recognizing human mobility and GBV as regional issues, SAFE underscores the need for … work emphasizes collective responsibility and cooperation in addressing issues of human mobility, GBV, and development …
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In the context of Romania's push toward sustainable and inclusive development, the government has asked the World Bank to support the harmonization of public investments financed by the European Union and the state budget. The current report describes the national program for local development...
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This report examines the role of infrastructure in explaining why the region lags so far behind the rest of the country. More importantly, it looks at how improved infrastructure may help the region catch up. Infrastructure is examined here through its impact on social as well as economic...
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While Uganda has a long history of decentralized service delivery, and has instituted Local Economic Development (LED) as an additional mandate for local governments (LGs), there has been less progress in operationalizing the concept and practically implementing it across LGs in Uganda. In...
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This report sheds light on the extent to which earnings mobility and inequality of opportunity in access to the labor … through their own efforts. For this reason, this report takes a closer look at the extent and nature of earnings mobility and …
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