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World Bank - 2023

Mobile phones have become the main communication tool and helped countless people to improve their lives in many countries. The use of mobile phones has grown exponentially over the past 30 years from 11 million subscriptions in 1990 to 8.6 billion in 2021.1 Ninety-five percent of the world's...

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Unlocking Electric Mobility Potential in MENA

World Bank - 2023

transition and decarbonization. Electric mobility, or e-mobility,has become one of the rapidly developing opportunities to … Africa (MENA), different local circumstances lead to different rationales for adopting various modalities of e-mobility … Mobility Potential in MENA” funded by the ESMAP, MOLO and PPIAF trust funds, set out to examine the opportunities and …

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Maximizing mobile : 2012 information and communications for development

2012

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Broadband Wireless Access in Egypt

World Bank - 2013

This paper discusses current and future developments in wireless technology and infastructure in Egypt. One of the important regulatory decisions made in Egypt is that policy related to broadband wireless will be technology neutral. Consequently, the regulator cannot decide about which operators...

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Migration, school attainment, and child labor : evidence from rural Pakistan

Mansuri, Ghazala - 2006

"Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects, in part, borrowing constraints that inhibit private investment in human capital by the poor. One promise of the recent proposals to open international labor markets to allow for...

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Remittances and poverty in Guatemala

Adams, Richard H. - 2004

"Adams uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) on poverty in Guatemala. With only one exception, he finds that both internal and international remittances reduce...

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Western Balkans Urban Mobility Initiative - Summary Report

World Bank - 2024

to stall in the mid-2000s. The Urban Mobility Initiative for the Western Balkans region was launched by the World Bank … Group to conduct a high-level, comprehensive diagnostic assessment of urban mobility in the 10 selected cities in the WeBa … region. The overarching aim of the assessment is to identify interventions for urban mobility-related challenges and …

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Cost-benefit analysis : issues and methodologies

Ray, Anandarup - 1984

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The conceptual basis of measures of household welfare and their implied survey data requirements

Grootaert, Christiaan - 1982

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Child schooling and the measurement of living standards

Birdsall, Nancy - 1982

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