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revealed the vulnerability of the country's transport connectivity and health systems. This book analyzes the country …'s transport connectivity, identifying the existing bottlenecks and possible economic potentials. By taking advantage of the … is shown that transport connectivity is crucial to increasing agricultural production, stimulating agglomeration …
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particular generate in two important sectors-transport and agriculture-in two countries in the Middle East and North Africa, the … Arab Republic of Egypt (transport) and the Republic of Yemen (agriculture). The focus is mainly on the costs associated …
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The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure,...
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countries, emissions are growing rapidly and disproportionate to its economy size. The transport sector plays a critical role in … these recent trends. This study aims to set out a vision and strategy for climate-smart transport, in order to minimize the …
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This report answers two questions: What is the statistical relationship between vehicle density in the streets of Greater Cairo and ambient air pollution in the city? And what are the effects of-one, the opening in recent years of another metro line and an extension to it, and two, the recent...
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The paper aims to provide the basis for an estimation equation and will focus on the relation between transport … relation between transport emissions and health effects and provides approximations from existing studies that can be used to …; chapter two gives impacts of air pollution from transport on health; chapter three presents valuation of health impacts …
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Much micro-econometric evidence suggests that precipitation has wide ranging impacts on vital economic indicators such as agricultural yields, human capital, and even conflict. And yet paradoxically most macro-econometric evidence (especially in the climate economy literature) finds that...
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What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the …
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Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …
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For centuries states have engaged in collecting data to serve various interests. In modern times, a data gap has emerged between developing and developed economies, with the latter having more advanced data systems. The authors explore the effects of data transparency on long-run growth for a...
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