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developing and emerging countries over several years, merged with destination-product-specific information on tariffs and non … isomorphic to that of tariffs: the observed pricing-to-market behavior suggests that, although tariffs reduce the market power of …
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This background paper is part of the supporting material for the report "From Waste to Resource: Shifting Paradigms for Smarter Wastewater Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean," a product of the "Wastewater: from waste to resource," an initiative of the World Bank Water Global Practice
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International Finance Corporation (IFC) conducted a survey to identify opportunities and provide recommendations for facilitating finance for women small and medium enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs. Various stakeholders were interviewed during the survey which included 500 women SME entrepreneurs,...
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This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand-side and supply-side factors on industrywide aggregate productivity. The paper focuses on the effects of three factors: (1) local market size, (2) the value of transportation costs...
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stakeholder engagement to prioritize issues and assess solutions. The focus is on the three VCs of beef, coffee, and maize. These … differs in terms of commercialization. Coffee, a pure cash crop, has close to 95 percent of its product sold by the farmer. In …
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Coffee is an ecologically and economically significant crop for Haiti. It is not only the main source of income for … more than 100,000 farmers, but the coffee ecosystem also sustains a large part of the remaining tree cover (currently at … the Haitian coffee sub-sector. Instead, it describes the risks affecting the existing supply chain in terms of their …
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Despite losing global market share over the last 20 years, Uganda remains a major coffee producer, accounting for … approximately 2.5 percent of global coffee production. In 2008-2009, coffee exports accounted for almost a quarter of Uganda …, the coffee industry is extremely important to both the rural population and the Ugandan economy. However, the sector …
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This note is a preliminary estimate of the revenue foregone under customs duty because of the various exemptions provided on imports. The estimates are intended as an input into the policy process that seeks to balance revenue raising measures, trade and tariff policy, and competitiveness. The...
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Tariff modernization will help Bangladesh diversify its export basket. Tariff modernization is at the crux of input competitiveness for efficient manufacturing given that more than 90 percent of the raw material for exportable goods are imported in Bangladesh and the other export incentives like...
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This report aims to provide a background of the electricity sector in Lebanon and to estimate the current and future costs of the sector in order to inform reform plans that are needed to recover the sector financial viability
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