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Retail Payment Costs and Savings in Kosovo

World Bank Group - 2022

This report is based on a study of the costs of retail payments in Kosovo, using a methodology (A Practical Guide for … Measuring Retail Payment Costs) developed by the World Bank's Payment System Development Group (PSDG), part of the Finance … Post Office on the supply side. The study aims to establish a sound economic baseline for the national retail payments …

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Innovation in Electronic Payment Adoption : The Case of Small Retailers

World Bank Group - 2016

This report aims to deepen the understanding of barriers to and incentives for the acceptance and use of electronic payments, from the perspective of micro, small and medium retailers (merchants). Developing and accelerating acceptance of electronic payments by these merchants is essential to...

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The Retail Payment Costs and Savings in Albania

World Bank Group - 2018

This report is based on a study of the costs and savings of retail payments in Albania using a methodology (A Practical … Guide for Measuring Retail Payment Costs) developed by the World Bank's Payment Systems Development Group, part of the … this methodology to Albania, the study aims to establish a sound economic baseline for the national retail payments system …

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Teachers and Teaching in Sierra Leone : Teacher Quality and Management Study

World Bank Group - 2021

This study aims to provide guidance to the Government of Sierra Leone in how to translate investments in education into quality learning. It centers on teachers, the single most important predictor of the quality of an education system. Joyful, rigorous, and focused learning happens when...

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Groundwater Quality : A Strategic Approach

World Bank Group - 2022

This policy brief highlights the key messages for policy makers from the World Bank report "Seeing the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022a). This report and "A Practical Manual on Groundwater Quality Monitoring" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022b)...

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Teachers in Lebanon Research for Results Program 2021 : Understanding the Quality of Teachers' Instructional Practices and Performance

World Bank Group - 2021

professional development trainings - including new curriculum design and effective lesson preparation. Designing policies that …

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Myanmar Improving Public Financial Management for Health Services : Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Service Delivery in the Wake of COVID

World Bank Group - 2020

Myanmar exhibits poor health outcomes and lags regional peers. Myanmar's Human Capital Index (HCI) score is 0.47, compared to a regional average of 0.60. Every year, 2,000 pregnant women and 50,000 children die from preventable causes, and 29 percent of children under age 5 are stunted. While...

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Understanding the Drivers of Public School Performance and Efficiency in the Philippines

World Bank Group - 2016

This note attempts to identify the factors associated with differences in overall school performance and efficiency. It draws on data from the Philippines Public Education Expenditure Tracking and Quantitative Service Delivery Study (PETS-QSDS), which tracked public education spending and...

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Improving Regulatory Service Delivery

World Bank Group - 2018

Bangladesh has set up an ambitious target of attaining middle-income status by 2021. To achieve this objective, the economy needs to grow at a sustained rate of 7.5-8 percent annually and this would in turn require an increase in private investment to at least 26.6 percent of GDP from 22 percent...

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Maintaining the Momentum While Addressing Service Quality and Equity : A Diagnostic of Water Supply, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Poverty in Ethiopia

World Bank Group - 2017

This summary report presents the findings of the Ethiopia WASH Poverty Diagnostic (EWPD) study led by the World Bank`s Water and Poverty Global Practices. Though Ethiopia has made good progress in increasing access to water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in recent years, the...

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