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Concrete literally holds the modern world together. The material and its binding agent cement comprise a key ingredient in the buildings and roads essential for development and in infrastructure critical to sustainable growth. The cement industry also generates about seven percent of the world's...
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The Philippines' experience in implementing the social amelioration program (SAP) in response to the Coronavirus … Government of the Philippines (GoP) expedited the development and registration for the national ID system (PhilSys) and used the …
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economy as a whole and use them to design an effective competition policy for the Philippines. The report builds on Product … impact of a more pro-competitive regulatory environment for the Philippines' economy. As the country did not have a …
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Human capital is the Philippines' most important resource. Two examples of its benefit to the country: remittances from … for foreign enterprises seeking educated workers for outsourcing their business processes. However, the Philippines has …, Thailand, and Vietnam. Within the past decade, the Philippines adopted an ambitious national social agenda that, if implemented …
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distortions in the domestic market of the Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest of the world is poverty and …
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The Philippines has made significant progress in empowering women and in advancing gender equality. The government … in the Philippines. The Philippines has made significant progress in empowering women and in advancing gender equality … across the Philippines, including supporting the full participation of women in political processes and governance in the …
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summary of two case studies in its application, the blue swimming crab (BSC) fisheries in Indonesia and the Philippines. A … brief introduction of FPIs and the blue swimming fisheries in Indonesia and the Philippines. Chapter three presents the …
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It has long been recognized that poverty is multidimensional, comprising not only insufficient income but also deprivations in access to basic services, the quality of living conditions, personal security, and other aspects of well-being. Since 2010 there has been rapid growth in the development...
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The July 2021 release of learning poverty estimates involves several changes to the data underlying the country-level learning poverty figures. This document provides details of the key changes made. Some country-level estimates have changed or become available for the first time due to new data...
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The three countries covered in this first report, Mali, Chad and Niger, share a number of common characteristics and face a similar set of challenges, which provides the foundation for this joint-review approach. All three are low-income landlocked economies. Each relies heavily on the...
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