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, and the cost of maintaining service provision. In addition to reconstruction costs, recovery needs are identified to build … recovery strategy. In the analysis, damage is defined as the cost to replace durable physical assets (buildings, equipment … of infrastructure, increased or new demands (operational costs) due to the disaster, lost revenues, higher expenditures …
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It is generally accepted, both within Poland and abroad, that structural transformation, modernization and increased market efficiency are key to increase competitiveness and raise farm incomes ina country's rural sector. Parallel investments in physical infrastructure and human capital as the...
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This paper summarizes the World Bank assistance strategy for rural development in the ECA region. The rural sector includes the people; economic; development activities; institutional, economic, and social infrastructure; and natural resources in rural areas and is thus not confined to agriculture....
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This report assesses the changes in social welfare and policy that have taken place in Poland during the economic transition. It aims to test the main hypotheses concerning changes in the role of the welfare state, workings of the labor market, the distributional consequences of transition, and...
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This analysis uses firm-level data to measure how the largest industrial firms in five Central and Eastern European countries restructured during 1992-94 and to make projections through 2000.
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Diversification of the financial sector has been one of the central features of China's recent and rapid economic growth. This book traces the development of China's Trust and Investment Companies (TICs), the most numerous non-bank financial institutions to emerge in China, and their link to the...
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disasters, prominent among which are earthquakes, floods, droughts, cyclones and landslides. Recurring floods formed the bulk of … process. It outlines the decision-making processes in recovery planning and extracts best practices and key lessons learned …
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proved to be vulnerable and have revealed several structural deficiencies during previous earthquake events. Earthquakes in … Europe and Central Asia (ECA) to better understand their behavior and potential losses when subjected to earthquakes, and to …
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The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Country Risk Profiles for floods and earthquakes presented in this publication are … fatalities and capital loss. Estimates of future population and GDP affected by earthquakes vary significantly among five shared …
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capital stock, which is the replacement cost of an asset newly rebuilt based on current unit costs and construction practice … technological changes et cetera Reconstruction costs are expected to be proportionately higher for non-residential than residential … production technologies are outdated). Estimates of direct damages, presented in this report, do not include costs associated …
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