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Global Experiences on Expanding Services to the Urban Poor
World Bank Group - 2009
In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...
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Livable Cities for the 21st Century : The Post Habitat II Agenda for the World Bank
Wolfensohn, James D. - 1997
Habitat II, the second United Nations conference on human settlements, also known as the "City Summit," concluded its work on June 14, 1996, in Istanbul. Habitat II indelibly marked the increasingly urban nature of the world and the urgency, extent, and increasing size of problems facing people...
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Kenya Economic Update, April 2020 : Turbulent Times for Growth in Kenya -- Policy Options during the COVID-19 Pandemic
World Bank Group - 2020
affected by the novel coronavirus, Kenya's economy had decelerated. The World Bank estimates that GDP growth in 2019 was about …
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Kenya Public Expenditure Review 2020 : Options for Fiscal Consolidation after the COVID-19 Crisis
World Bank Group - 2020
and examines options for expenditure rationalization to help return Kenya's fiscal accounts to a prudent trajectory in the … controls in Kenya. It complements an ongoing governance for enabling service delivery and public investments in Kenya (GESDeK … while chapter three presents options for expenditure rationalization in Kenya. Chapter four ties it all together with fiscal …
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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David - 2015
in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …
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Benefit Sharing in REDD+
World Bank - 2011
International policies to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) envisage the creation of financial incentive mechanisms that reward forest protection efforts and adequately compensate those actors that face new costs. In order for REDD+ to achieve these objectives,...
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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming
Ozier, Owen - 2019
In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...
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Female genital cutting, women's health and development : the role of the World Bank
Rogo, Khama O. - 2007
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Voices to Choices : Bangladesh's Journey in Women's Economic Empowerment
Solotaroff, Jennifer L. - 2009
Women have experienced significant changes in various spheres of their lives during the last decades as Bangladesh made … economic progress. Yet women's economic engagement and empowerment are subdued, as they cannot make sufficient choices for … examining women's participation in the labour force, ownership and control of household assets, use and control of financial …
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