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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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The resilience of the Lebanese port sector has proven to be low. The impact of the ongoing economic crisis, the COVID …-19 pandemic, and the Port of Beirut (PoB) explosion has traumatized the sector and exposed its weaknesses and inabilities … economy while opportunity costs are high given the recent port developments in the Eastern Mediterranean region and globally …
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additional port movements generated by transshipment in regional hub(s). Given the regional dynamics of ports in West Africa …, there is also a good case for more cooperation between West African countries on port reform, competition and regulation … regulatory efforts at the country level and provide a forum to analyze regional issues related to inter-port competition and …
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World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence container port performance index and underlying data are intended to …, shipping lines, port and terminal operators, shippers, logistics companies and consumers. The ranking is based on time vessels … needed to spend in port to complete workloads over the course of 2021, a year that saw unprecedented port congestion and …
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dredging and port terminal operation concessions. At present, the contractual terms of these reforms are coming to an end, so …
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investigates differences in productivity dynamics across economic segments and attempts to derive policy recommendations to improve … the Polish economy's productivity performance. First, the authors estimate firm-level total factor productivity (TFP …), compute labor productivity indices, and analyze the main productivity patterns between 2009 and 2019. Second, the authors …
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Igniting farm productivity can support growth and job creation in Kosovo. Agricultural production, in real terms, has … productivity and its growth in Kosovo, and implied constraints on growth of agriculture, using farm-level data. The results of the … productivity analysis suggest that in Kosovo there is a considerable misallocation of resources that if remedied can boost growth …
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To boost economic growth and foster sustained formal job creation in Kosovo, igniting firm productivity is crucial … particular attention to firm productivity. For the last decade, the landscape of firms in Kosovo has been dominated by … microenterprises with low productivity, employment, and survival rates. Firm creation and growth,small firm density, average size, and …
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performance of the agriculture sector with an emphasis on productivity and competitiveness, and highlights opportunities for …
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