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Is Random Forest a Superior Methodology for Predicting Poverty? : An Empirical Assessment
Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2016
Random forest is in many fields of research a common method for data driven predictions. Within economics and prediction of poverty, random forest is rarely used. Comparing out-of-sample predictions in surveys for same year in six countries shows that random forest is often more accurate than...
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Slovakia Catching-Up Regions : Presov Region - Key Development Dynamics
World Bank Group - 2019
cities and national capitals, while many areas fall further behind. Slovakia illustrates the difference between national … convergence and subnational divergence. While Slovakia is considered one of the EU's economic stars, it also has some of the union …'s highest regional disparities. Slovakia's impressive economic gains over the last two decades were led by Bratislava region …
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Slovakia Catching-up Regions : Unlocking the Endogenous Tourism Potential of Poloniny National Park and the Snina District of the Slovak Republic
World Bank Group - 2019
The report examines the current tourism development and market of the Presovsky Samospravny Kraj, Presov Self-Governing Region (PSK), focusing particularly on the lagging district of Snina and the National Park of Poloniny, and the opportunities for their improvement as potential drivers of...
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The Impact of the World Bank on the Improvements of Consumer Protection in Financial Services and on Developing Financial Literacy in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Prouza, Tomaa - 2010
in improving financial literacy in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the first two countries where the World Bank provided …. This study describes the impact the pioneering work of the World Bank team had on the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and how …
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A Strategy for Slovakia's Transport Sector
World Bank - 2001
Slovakia's transport sector has not suffered from the dramatic reductions in demand and neglect of its infrastructure … will face when Slovakia enters the European Union, hopefully at the beginning of 2004. There is now a short window of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248520
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The Distributional Consequences of Group Procurement : Evidence from a Randomized Trial of a Food Security Program in Rural India
Christian, Paul - 2015
Public transfer programs that allow beneficiaries to choose the transferred good may be more efficient, but the poorest beneficiaries may not participate if the good chosen is too costly. A model shows that program targeting and consumption impacts are tied to selected quality of the provided...
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Support to Rural Sanitation Scale Up Under the Philippine National Sustainable Sanitation Plan
World Bank - 2015
This report summarizes the results and lessons learned from the Technical Assistance (TA) Support to Rural Sanitation Scale Up under the Philippine National Sustainable Sanitation Plan. The TA was carried out by the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program from July 2012 to March 2016, and is...
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Strengthening Local Providers for Improved Rural Water Supply in Pakistan
World Bank - 2016
This synthesis report details the process, outputs, intermediate outcomes, lessons learned, and recommendations of the World Bank executed technical assistance (TA) on strengthening local providers for improved rural water supply in Pakistan implemented by the water and sanitation program of the...
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Cambodia Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Improvement Support : Synthesis Report
World Bank - 2016
This synthesis report documents the implementation process, results and lessons learned under a three-year Technical Assistance (TA) program undertaken by the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank's Water Global Practice (WSP) in Cambodia between May 2013 and June 2016. It also presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644441
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The Atlas of Rural Marginalized Areas and of Local Human Development in Romania
Tesliuc, Emil - 2016
Romania aims to be a country in which all citizens are provided with an equal opportunity toparticipate in society, where their basic needs are met and their differences respected, and whereall people feel valued and can live in dignity.Our society is still far from this ideal. One in every five...
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