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The City of Yokohama offers useful lessons for other cities seeking to achieve sustainable urban development. It simultaneously managed rapid economic growth and a sharp rise in population through a series of thoughtfully conceived and well" integrated development projects and regulative...
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and regulatory framework options for credit reporting systems; Chapter 5 summarizes the World Bank Group's fifteen plus … years of experience in developing credit bureaus and credit registries around the world; Chapter 6 presents an overview of …
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World Bank. Given the nature of the Bank's work, evidence suggests that effective and efficient knowledge sharing might be … confirmed the existence of five key structural barriers to knowledge sharing that had been identified in previous World Bank …
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A growing literature aiming at explaining differences across firms in productivity and access to global export markets has focused on the internal organization of firms. This paper contributes to this literature by evaluating the impact of a program that focuses on enhancing competitiveness of...
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A growing body of empirical work suggests that personalized, just-in-time consultation about financial decision-making, with an emphasis on goal-setting, may be more effective to bring about improvements in financial consumer behavior than generalized, classroom-style education. With this in...
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The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders … greater world, today, networks of information and communication technologies (ICTs) enmesh the globe and represent a … and the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank Group, with significant contributions from outside …
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-poverty initiatives in the developing world. Inspired particularly by Mexico's successful program, CCTs are viewed as an effective way to …
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The report is structured as follows. The next section introduces the theoretical notion of a 'virtual economy' and explains how it is distinct from other Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-related economic activities. The following sections describe in detail the main areas of the...
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Information and communication technology (ICT) has always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Today, ICT represents a tremendous opportunity for rural populations to improve productivity,...
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