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Yokohama Development Knowledge Sourcebook

World Bank Group - 2018

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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Credit Reporting Knowledge Guide 2019

World Bank Group - 2019

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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World Bank Knowledge Sharing and Reuse Incentive Framework

World Bank Group - 2019

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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Disruptive Technologies in the Credit Information Sharing Industry : Developments and Implications

World Bank Group - 2019

This note analyzes the evolution of Credit Information Systems, including the emergence of new technologies that use alternative data in credit decisioning and the opportunities and risks associated with these trends. This paper also predicts the potential development effect of these disruptive...

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Public Research Institutions : Fostering Knowledge Linkages and Transferring Technology in Malaysia

World Bank Group - 2020

The transition to a more innovation-based growth model is even more urgent in the current uncertain global context[1]. While the GDP growth rate has proven resilient in recent years, declining oil and gas output, coupled with economic shocks, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic, havedented...

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Impact of Counseling on Knowledge, Feelings and Actions of Over-Indebted Borrowers in Tajikistan

World Bank Group - 2016

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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Pakistan Earthquake 2005 : The Case of Centralized Recovery Planning and Decentralized Implementation

World Bank Group - 2014

Located in South Asia, Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. Pakistan is divided into four … the natural disasters to have struck Pakistan since the country's formation, with the collective toll of the floods prior … Pakistan. As of the earthquake of 2005, the windstorm of 1965 remained the most fatal natural disaster in the country's history …

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Investing in Logistics for Sustainable Economic Growth : Background Studies for the Preparation of Cambodia Logistics Master Plan

World Bank Group - 2018

The World Bank prepared three background studies as inputs for the development of the Cambodia Logistics Master Plan led by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in 2017-2018. These studies benefit from a close coordination and collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)...

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Moving Forward : Connectivity and Logistics to Sustain Bangladesh's Success

World Bank Group - 2019

Bangladesh has been successful on many counts. The economy grew six percent a year between 2000 and 2017, and the poverty rate fell by more than half. All sectors experienced growth, but the contribution of agriculture to gross domestic product (GDP) declined, as Bangladesh became an important...

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Local Sourcing in the Cabo Verde Tourism Food Supply Chain : Opportunities and Challenges

World Bank Group - 2019

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