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The purpose of this paper is to provide information and analysis on the environmental issues facing Peru so that the Bank can take into account potentially significant environmental risks as well as opportunities in the Peru Country Strategy and the subsequent programming activities. The...
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This document has been prepared as an input to the Bank's Guyana Country Strategy (2012-2016). Its purpose is to identify key environmental issues in Guyana and provide recommendations for the Bank in terms of investments to anticipate risks related to sensitive sectors, programs, and projects...
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Government's National Plan for Human Development and addressed five areas essential for growth and poverty reduction. The one …
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poverty reduction. Since their establishment, the Japanese Trust Funds (JTF) have been recognized by the Inter …
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The study uses commune fixed-effect regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters on welfare and poverty of … resilience of households to natural disasters. We find that all the three disaster types considered in this study including … remittances and social allowances can help households strengthen the resilience to natural disasters. Households in communes with …
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This paper examines food security in the context of conflict in West Africa. The analysis developed in the paper recognises the importance of defining conflict type and the trends in conflict so that conflict and post-conflict policies may be implemented. The relationship between food security...
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phenomena and with a high proportion of its population in a situation of residential poverty. We deduce that the hazard in the … is covered by Poverty in the ‘study area’, various analyses of the physical situation in the target area, inhabited by … poverty leads to the conclusion that these are the primary causes of disaster-related destruction, which in a 33 year period …
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technologies, and workers' health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in … and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers …. Unlike more mature, computer-based technologies, frontier technologies of the recent technology wave substantially lower …
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