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This study discusses options how to increase the Dominican Republic tax revenue and attempts to identify priority areas for efficiency-enhancing reforms. A 2016 World Bank report on Dominican fiscal policy found that the country's tax expenditures were poorly targeted and regressively...
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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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The India Development Update for April 2015 has two main aims. First, it reports on the key developments over the past …
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undertaken by the World Bank to review the development of e-mobility in India, identify remaining challenges and mitigation … measures to support India's electric mobility vision. This report presents the findings of the analysis and lays out a set of …
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Chennai, a city on the southeastern coast of India and the state capital of Tamil Nadu, has one of the world's fastest …-growing economies. Chennai is the automotive hub for India and is also home to several other industries ranging from petrochemicals to … Economy and Resilience (WICER) system. This case study focuses on the experience of Chennai in India …
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The Country Opinion Survey in India assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in India perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments …, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in India on 1) their views regarding the …
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The district of Cox's Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh, is an instructive context to understand how long-standing and newer growth opportunities and constraints manifest at the local level, remote from Bangladesh's major growth poles of Dhaka and Chittagong. Potentially exacerbating Cox's...
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Through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the international community has recognized the need for an approach to development that considers the interdependence of human and natural systems. Single-sector approaches to development challenges are insufficient to produce sustainable...
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