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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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A World of Cities : The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013
Historically, urban growth required enough development to grow and transport significant agricultural surpluses or a government effective enough to build an empire. But there has been an explosion of poor mega-cities over the last thirty years. A simple urban model illustrates that in closed...
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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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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David - 2015
Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457163
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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer M. - 2013
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 … be highly sensitive to price and that both liquidity and targeting women increase demand. We find no effect of providing …
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Education as Liberation?
Friedman, Willa - 2011
impacts of a randomized girls' merit scholarship incentive program in Kenya that raised test scores and secondary schooling …. We find little evidence for modernization theory. Consistent with the empowerment view, young women in program schools …
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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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