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Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers : An Initial Assessment
World Bank Group - 2019
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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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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Merit, Discrimination, and Democratization : An Analysis of Promotion Patterns in Indonesia's Civil Service
World Bank Group - 2018
What effect does democratization have on meritocratic practices in the civil service? Democratization increases performance incentives within the bureaucracy. This leads to more meritocracy for individuals with performance-enhancing characteristics, such as educational attainment, which...
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The World Bank Group : learning from the past, embracing the future
World Bank Group - 1994 - 1. print
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2010 world investment and political risk
2010
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Ending Poverty and Hunger by 2030
World Bank Group - 2015
To permanently end poverty and hunger by 2030, the world needs a food system that can feed every person, every day … better steward the world's natural resources. Urgently, we need a food system that is more resilient and that shifts from …
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Commodity Markets Outlook, April 2015
World Bank Group - 2015
The decline in commodity prices that began with metals and agriculture four years ago—joined by crude oil in mid-2014—continued in 2015Q1 (Figure 1). Energy, metals, and agricultural prices were down 28, 11, and 5 percent, respectively, from the previous quarter. Increasing supplies, bumper...
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A National Biodiversity Offset Scheme
World Bank Group - 2015
Liberia had an estimated 4.3 million hectares of forests in 2011, comprising approximately 50 percent of Liberia’s landmass. These forests support very high levels of biodiversity, provide a wide range of ecosystem services (for example, bush meat, medicines, construction materials, and...
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2014 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance
World Bank Group - 2015
being provided in a world shaped by climate change. This is the fourth edition of the Joint Report on MDB Climate Finance …
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Tajikistan Country Gender Assessment
World Bank Group - 2021
challenges remain. The global COVID-19 outbreak is impacting economies around the world, including Tajikistan, in an … Tajikistan national sources, the World Bank, development partners and others. It is oriented towards key strategic objectives of … the World Bank Group (WBG) Gender Strategy for the period of FY17-FY23 with relevance for the Tajikistan context …
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