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The global sanitation workforce bridges the gap between sanitation infrastructure and the provision of sanitation services. Sanitation workers provide an essential public service but often at the cost of their dignity, safety, health, and living conditions. They are some of the most vulnerable...

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Balancing Workers' Protection and Labor Market Flexibility in China

World Bank Group - 2021

Across the world, governments use minimum wages, employment protection legislation, and other labor regulations that define the legal boundaries of employment to manage potential labor market imperfections. These imperfections include information asymmetry, uneven market power between employers...

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El Salvador

World Bank Group - 2014

The Country Opinion Survey in El Salvador assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in El Salvador perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia,...

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Informality, Job Quality, and Welfare in Sri Lanka

World Bank Group - 2020

Informal employment remains a salient and persistent feature of the Sri Lanka labor market, with around 70 percent of the work force informally employed. There are generally three reasons to be concerned about high informality: poverty, productivity and public finance. This report focuses on the...

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A PLanner's Guide for Selecting Clean-Coal Technologies for Power Plants

Oskarsson, K.; Berglund, A.; Deling, R.; Snellman, U.; … - World Bank Group - 1997

plants greater than 100 MWe in India and China. …

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Macroeconomic Reform in China. Laying the Foundation for a Socialist Market Economy

Lou, J. - World Bank Group - 1997

), under the direction of the System Restructuring Commission (SRC) of the People's Republic of China. These include reports …

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China: Issues and Options in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Control.

Johnson, T.M.; Li, J.; Jiang, Z.; Taylor, R.P. - World Bank Group - 1996

options for abatement in China over the coming decades. …

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Mobilizing Domestic Capital Markets for Infrastructure Financing. International experience and Lessons for China

Kumar, A.; Gray, R.D.; Hoskote, M.; von Klaudy, S.; … - World Bank Group - 1997

The present report draws on experience from industrialized and developing countries in terms of capital market financing of domestic infrastructure projects, and discusses the applicaiblity of these lessons in the Chinese context. It also describes the strategies these economies have adopted to...

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At the Front Line : Reflections on the Bank's Work with China over Forty Years, 1980-2020

World Bank Group - 2021

evidence-based advice to China, but China was always in the driver's seat in structuring the relationship and in determining … Conference, at Dalian, then with the China 2020 and China 2030 reports, and the subsequent series of flagships produced jointly … local level through demonstration projects and reform pilots that China studied, adapted, and later scaled. Finally, an …

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China : 40-Year Experience in Renewable Energy Development; Policies, Achievements, and Lessons Learned

World Bank Group - 2021

China made impressive progress in developing renewable energy to provide access to clean energy and electricity to its … pollution and mitigating the impact of climate change. Through that journey, China has accumulated a considerable amount of …

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