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Big data can sound remote and lacking a human dimension, with few obvious links to development and impacting the lives of the poor. Concepts such as anti-poverty targeting, market access or rural electrification seem far more relevant - and easier to grasp. And yet some of today's most...
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Bangladesh has maintained its robust growth performance. Exports and remittances have been buoyant. Agriculture had bumper harvests. Overall inflation has slowed as decelerating food inflation offset a pickup in non-food inflation. Monetary expansion has been short of target as private sector...
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This is a companion to the Global Economic Prospects 2010. Most commodity prices reached historical highs in mid-2008, giving rise to the longest and broadest commodity boom of the post-WWII period. Apart from strong and sustained economic growth, the boom was fueled by numerous factors...
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Fintech is increasingly recognized as a key enabler for financial sectors worldwide, enabling more efficient and competitive financial markets while expanding access to finance for traditionally underserved consumers. A critical challenge for policy makers is to harness the benefits and...
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Open banking schemes provide consumers with more choice and new financial products and services through the use of technology, particularly application programing interfaces (API's). The main objective of this paper is to provide guidance on how to implement consumer consent protocols to access...
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Thailand is the twentieth most populous country in the world, located at the center of Southeast Asia. The southern end … of the country is a peninsula with the Andaman Sea to the west and Gulf of Thailand. Located in the tropical region …, Thailand's climate is relatively warm all year round. Thailand has experienced negative growth due to the impacts form the …
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system covers the large informal sector in Thailand at all times, not only during crises …
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Thailand is widely considered progressive among developing and middle-income countries regarding the inclusion of … orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in Thailand is qualitative in nature. A new study led by the World Bank, in partnership … quantitative data on economic and financial outcomes for a large, statistically significant sample of LGBTI people in Thailand …
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Thailand, like many countries around the world, is in the midst of a significant plastic waste crisis. In 2019, the … government of Thailand released the Roadmap for Plastic Waste Management 2018-2030 and is developing the National action plan on …-priority catchments. The study presents the first large-scale assessment in Thailand to integrate national waste generation and waste …
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Thailand has succeeded in expanding coverage of publicly-funded and publicly-managed health insurance schemes …, following the introduction of universal health coverage policy in 2001. While Thailand's achievement of universal health … financial protection. A recent study by Thailand's health insurance system research office (HISRO) shows that utilization of …
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