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Infrastructure and finance : evidence from India's GQ highway network
Das, Abhiman; Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, William R.; … - 2019
This paper uses the construction of India's Golden Quadrangle central highway network, together with comprehensive loan data from the Reserve Bank of India, to investigate the interaction between infrastructure development and financial sector depth. The paper identifies a disproportionate...
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Attracting investors to African public-private partnerships : a project preparation guide
2009
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Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure : The Power and Water Sectors
Cervigni, Raffaello - 2015 - Online-Ausg.
To sustain Africa's growth, and accelerate the eradication of extreme poverty, investment in infrastructure is … fundamental. In 2010, the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic found that to enable Africa to fill its infrastructure gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245161
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Are they really being served? : assessing effective infrastructure access and quality in 15 Kenyan cities
Gulyani, Sumila; Rizvi, Andrea; Talukdar, Debabrata - 2019
This paper proposes a framework that examines three levels of access to infrastructure-nominal, effective, and quality-adjusted access. Most conventional indicators measure nominal access-whether a household has physical access to a service in or near the house. By contrast, effective access...
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Dynamics of Rural Growth in Bangladesh : Sustaining Poverty Reduction
World Bank Group - 2016
The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The...
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Sector Diagnostic and Analysis of Public Spending in Agriculture and Rural Development
World Bank Group - 2019
agriculture and rural development in Croatia, as the country prepares its National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy and …) in the context of the macro-trends and issues affecting Croatian agriculture today, the ongoing EU CAP reform process … range of strategic themes related to agriculture and rural development in Croatia, including (i) Croatian agricultural …
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Dynamics of rural growth in Bangladesh : sustaining poverty reduction
Gautam, Madhur; Faruqee, Rashid - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
agriculture -- Growth of the non-farm sector and its drivers -- Connecting farmers to markets : trading in high-value products …
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Gender Dynamics and Climate Change in Rural Bolivia
Ashwill, Maximillian - 2011
The purpose of this report is to inform practitioners on gender dynamics in Bolivia as they relate to natural resource management and climate change. This is done to provide new knowledge for mainstreaming gender into rural development projects. The aim is to go beyond general gender assumptions...
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Thinking Systematically About Scaling Up : Developing Guidance for Scaling Up World Bank-Supported Agriculture and Rural Development Operations
Jonasova, Marketa - 2012
The objective of this report is to assess the usefulness of providing guidance for scaling up good practices in core ARD business lines, and to test the prospects for doing so. The output of the document is a guide for a systematic discussion on scaling up of Competitive Grant Schemes (CGSs) for...
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Higher Losses and Slower Development in the Absence of Disaster Risk Management Investments
Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2016
Global economic losses from natural disasters continue to increase. Yet, investments in disaster risk management are not universal, as they are traditionally seen as in competition with other development and economic priorities. The multitude of benefits from disaster risk management investments...
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