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The City of Yokohama offers useful lessons for other cities seeking to achieve sustainable urban development. It simultaneously managed rapid economic growth and a sharp rise in population through a series of thoughtfully conceived and well" integrated development projects and regulative...
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Access to finance is an essential component of economic development and job creation. A host of studies have shown a positive correlation between financial development and economic growth. Access to finance is also critical for larger corporations and conglomerates, which, given their size,...
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This document presents an incentive framework aiming to improve knowledge sharing (KS) and reusing behaviors at the World Bank. Given the nature of the Bank's work, evidence suggests that effective and efficient knowledge sharing might be the biggest predictor of success. To approach KS in a...
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A growing body of empirical work suggests that personalized, just-in-time consultation about financial decision-making, with an emphasis on goal-setting, may be more effective to bring about improvements in financial consumer behavior than generalized, classroom-style education. With this in...
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of this analysis is to identify pragmatic steps to improve hospital performance in Poland and propose actionable short … history of engagement in the health sector in Poland and has built on various pieces of analysis to meet the objectives of …
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joining the European Union (EU), Poland was one of the fastest-growing economies in the world by 2020. This report …
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The need for more sustainable and integrative planning processes as a way of dealing with the complexity of urban mobility has been widely recognized. Within the European Union (EU) there has been an enhanced focus on urban mobility solutions where local authorities move away from past 'silo...
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This report discusses Poland's experience along five dimensions. These five dimensions - a pentagon of policies and … institutions are governing, sustaining, connecting, growing, and including. The main lessons from Poland and the key insights for … its future, based on this pentagon, are presented in the lessons and insights summarized in this report. Poland …
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assistance to the self government of Poland's Swietokrzyskie region, aimed at strengthening the implementation of Work … was part of a formal program of collaboration between the government of Poland, two regional self governments, the … improve innovation, employment, and economic growth in catching-up regions in Poland. As part of this programme, the World …
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This policy note analyzes the profile of the out of work in Poland and compares this with the current set of labor … Survey, the tax and benefit model, expenditure data in Poland and the EU, qualitative and institutional analysis to prepare a …
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