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Central America Social Expenditures and Institutional Review : Panama
World Bank Group - 2015
Panama has experienced impressive and significant economic growth, emerging as one of the better performers in Central … America in recent years and one of the fastest growing economies worldwide. From 2003 to 2013, Panama has averaged an annual … grow albeit at a lower rate. This note recommends that Panama prioritize three main aspects: a) improving the effectiveness …
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Maximizing Finance for Development in Agriculture and Food Systems in Ethiopia : An Analysis of Beef, Coffee, and Maize
World Bank Group - 2019
stakeholder engagement to prioritize issues and assess solutions. The focus is on the three VCs of beef, coffee, and maize. These …
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Central America Community-Based Approaches to IPV : The Case for Community Mobilization Interventions to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence
World Bank - 2016
This review focuses specifically on Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women, as opposed to Violence against women and girls (VAWG) more broadly, for several reasons. Partner violence is the most prevalent form of violence against women globally: a woman is at the greatest risk for...
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Central America Urbanization Review : Making Cities Work for Central America
World Bank Group - 2016
Central America is undergoing an important transition, with urban populations increasingat accelerated speeds, bringing pressing challenges as well as opportunities to boost sustained,inclusive and resilient growth. Today, 59 percent of Central America's population lives in urban areas, but it...
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Towards Equal? : Women in Central America
World Bank Group - 2018
Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) have taken important steps toward increasing the inclusion …
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Central America Urbanization Review : Making Cities Work for Central America
Maria, Augustin - 2017 - Online-Ausg.
, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama- and the actions that central and local governments can take to reap the intended benefits of …
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Toward More Efficient and Effective Public Social Spending in Central America
Acosta, Pablo - 2017 - Online-Ausg.
six countries in the subregion-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama-this report also takes …
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Nowcasting Prices Using Google Trends : An Application to Central America
Seabold, Skipper - 2015
The objective of this study is to assess the possibility of using Internet search keyword data for forecasting price series in Central America, focusing on Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Honduras. The Internet search data comes from Google Trends. The paper introduces these data and discusses some...
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Understanding the Impact of Windstorms on Economic Activity from Night Lights in Central America
Ishizawa, Oscar A. - 2017
Central America is particularly prone to tropical storms and hurricanes. The prevailing conditions of poverty and socioeconomic inequality in most countries of the region make their exposed population especially vulnerable to those adverse natural events. This paper quantifies the causal effects...
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