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Delivering Road Safety in Bangladesh : Leadership Priorities and Initiatives to 2030

World Bank Group - 2020

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Delivering Road Safety in India : Leadership Priorities and Initiatives to 2030

World Bank Group - 2020

India has the world's highest reported number of annual road crash fatalities. According to the World Health Organization, road crash fatalities in India account for approximately 11 percent of the estimated 1.35 million global toll each year. Vulnerable road users, primarily pedestrians,...

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Delivering Road Safety in Nepal : Leadership Priorities and Initiatives to 2030

World Bank Group - 2020

Road crash deaths and injuries in Nepal have been on a sharp upward trajectory since the early 2000s. In fi scal year 2017-18, 2,541 road deaths were offi cially reported in Nepal, which is equivalent to a fatality rate of 8.59 per 100,000 population. In the same period, 4,144 serious injury and...

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Delivering Road Safety in Sri Lanka : Leadership Priorities and Initiatives to 2030

World Bank Group - 2020

High road crash fatality and injury rates on Sri Lanka's roads are undermining the economic growth and progress made over the past decade on reducing poverty and boosting prosperity. Estimated annual road crash deaths per capita in Sri Lanka are twice the average rate in high-income countries...

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Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries

World Bank Group - 2021

Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails a fleeting transition from childhood to adulthood,...

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Russia

World Bank Group - 2014

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

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Indonesian Economic Transformation and Employment : Policy Input for an Indonesia Jobs Strategy

World Bank Group - 2016

productivity sectors. This report aims to show the patterns of economic transformation in Indonesia in the past decade and a half …, especially in terms of jobs and employment. The report highlights barriers to labor movement and macroeconomic sources of demand … for labor. The report seeks to contribute to the design of a jobs strategy that emphasizes the transition of workers from …

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Lessons from Poland, Insights for Poland : A Sustainable and Inclusive Transition to High Income Status

World Bank Group - 2017

This report discusses Poland's experience along five dimensions. These five dimensions - a pentagon of policies and institutions are governing, sustaining, connecting, growing, and including. The main lessons from Poland and the key insights for its future, based on this pentagon, are presented...

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Kazakhstan : Enhancing the Fiscal Framework to Support Economic Transformation

World Bank Group - 2017

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Rwanda Economic Update, December 2017 : Rethinking Urbanization in Rwanda from Demographic Transition to Economic Transformation

World Bank Group - 2017

Developments in the Rwandan economy as of the first half of 2017 have been mixed. On the upside, Rwanda's external imbalances have eased on account of improvements in global commodity prices, global and regional strengthening of growth recovery, and the external adjustment the government...

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