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Given the broad array of issues and the complexity faced by the water sector as a whole (from irrigation to flood protection, to water conservation and hydropower), there is great demand for future exploring the potential of RBF and tackling the questions still unanswered about many of its...
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The role of the public sector in housing delivery in many developed economies evolved from government as builder in the post-War era in the 1950s when the government directly constructed and delivered housing to meet the daunting demand for housing, to government as enabler and regulator in the...
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Stagnant global trade, subdued investment, and heightened policy uncertainty marked another difficult year for the … world economy. A moderate recovery is expected for 2017, with receding obstacles to activity in commodity-exporting emerging … market and developing economies. Weak investment is weighing on medium-term prospects across many emerging market and …
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environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by one of the largest and longest-operating impact investors … investing that some eligible markets do not receive sufficient investment capital …
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area turmoil, bounced back in the second half of the year. Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to developing countries …
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External financing conditions for developing countries have been remarkably favorable in recent months, reflecting expectations of a more drawn-out period of monetary policy accommodation in high-income countries and some narrowing of external vulnerabilities. Additional easing by the European...
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same period in 2012. Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to developing countries increased by 9 percent during the …
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The World Bank Group prepared this report, Climate Change in APEC: Assessing Risks, Preparing Financial Markets, and …
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This paper computes a new financial globalization index for a large sample of countries for 1992-2016. Unlike other measures, the financial globalization index corrects for the heteroscedasticity of global volatility. This leads to a downward adjustment of financial globalization trends for...
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The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
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