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Guide for task teams on procurement procedures used in social funds
Cavera Uriona, Jorge A. - World Bank Group - 2001
Since the creation of the first Social fund 14 years ago in Bolivia, these funds have been developed in more than 40 countries around the world. Over time they have diversified as well to serve as a very useful instrument for human development. The recommendations in this study are based on an...
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Australia's mandatory retirement saving policy : a view from the new millennium
Bateman, Hazel; Piggott, John - World Bank Group - 2001
Formal retirement income provision in Australia, can be traced back to occupational schemes first offered by banks, and state governments in the nineteenth century. However, the year 1909 marks the beginning of a national retirement income policy, with the introduction of means-tested age...
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Armenia Economic Update, Spring 2015
World Bank Group - 2015
Armenias economic growth remained resilient in 2014. Output expansion slowed to 3.4 percent in 2014, relative to 3.5 percent in the previous year. On the supply side, while services particularly transport and telecoms), agriculture, and manufacturing performed well, construction, mining, and...
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Enterprise Surveys : Armenia Country Profile 2020
World Bank Group - 2020
innovate and to increase productivity, key factors for sustainable development. A more productive private sector, in turn …
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The Pharmaceutical Industry in India and Hungary. Policies, Institutions, and Technological Development
Felker, G.; Chaudhuri, S.; Gyorgy, K.; Goldman, M. - World Bank Group - 1997
countries. In Hungary and India, however, science0intensity was an opportunity rather than a barrier to entry. …
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Assessment of Long-term Finance Providers for Small and Medium Agribusinesses : Stocktaking, Lessons, and Case Studies
World Bank Group - 2021
Agricultural transformation that involves the production of high-value food products and post-harvest processing is high on the policy agenda in many developing countries. A surge in the demand for high value and processed food products observed in Asia and Latin America is also happening in...
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Chad SME Competitiveness and Global Value Chain Upgrading Diagnostics with Focus on Opportunities in the Domestic and Regional Markets
World Bank Group - 2021
This study aims to explore ways in which key competencies of the oil and gas industry could be leveraged to support the diversification of the Chadian economy. The analysis focused on identifying opportunities and prioritizing core competencies in specific segments of the oil and gas value chain...
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Innovation in Electronic Payment Adoption : The Case of Small Retailers
World Bank Group - 2016
This report aims to deepen the understanding of barriers to and incentives for the acceptance and use of electronic payments, from the perspective of micro, small and medium retailers (merchants). Developing and accelerating acceptance of electronic payments by these merchants is essential to...
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Access to Finance for Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a Focus on Gender : A Survey Report
World Bank Group - 2018
This report provides a baseline analysis of the status of access to finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) with a particular focus on women entrepreneur' ability and constraints in accessing finance in order to develop and grow their businesses. It is based on a...
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Partnership for Growth : Linking Large Firms and Agro-Processing SMEs
World Bank Group - 2018
Partnership for growth: linking large firms and agro-processing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) presents lessons … learned from various models utilized by public and private sector programs to stimulate the growth of agro-processing SMEs …, the literature review helped identify examples of initiatives focused on linking lead firms and agro-processing SMEs in 56 …
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