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Global Economic Prospects, January 2020 : Slow Growth, Policy Challenges
World Bank Group - 2020
Global growth is projected to be slightly faster in 2020 than the post-crisis low registered last year. While growth could be stronger if reduced trade tensions lead to a sustained reduction in uncertainty, the balance of risks to the outlook is to the downside. Growth in emerging market and...
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Investing in Urban Resilience : Protecting and Promoting Development in a Changing World
World Bank Group - 2016
overcome these gaps, the World Bank Group and other multilateral development institutions can play a critical role in enabling …
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2017 Survey of National Development Banks
World Bank Group - 2018
collaboration with the World Federation of Development Financing Institutions. Sixty-four development banks from different parts of …
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The Lao Trade Story : Implementing Trade Policy and Trade Facilitation Reforms in Lao PDR
World Bank Group - 2016
In 2015, Lao PDR is virtually unrecognizable from what it was just a decade ago. A more open, more outward trade landscape has transformed the country from a closed-off backwater into a fast-growing developing country, complete with coffee shops, restaurants, and billboards lining the streets of...
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Identification for Development : Kenya
World Bank Group - 2016
Identification schemes are key enablers for the effective delivery of services and more broadly for the quality of engagement between a country's government and its citizens. Legal identity is now recognized as an essential element of development; target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals...
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Pakistan Development Update, April 2016 : From Stability to Prosperity
World Bank Group - 2016
South Asia emerged as the fastest growing region in the world in 2015, posting GDP growth of 7 percent. Weak oil and commodity prices, slowing capital flows and shrinking global trade contributed towards a deceleration of growth in most of the world's economies. South Asia - as a net importer of...
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The Solomon Islands Early Childhood Development : SABER and NSA-ECD Country Report 2013
World Bank Group - 2013
This report presents an analysis of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) subsector, including programs and policies that affect young children in the Solomon Islands. This was a collaborative effort between UNICEF and World Bank Group, as it combines World Bank Group's SABER-ECD framework,...
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Public-Private Dialogue in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations : Experiences and Lessons Learned
World Bank Group - 2014
Public-private dialogue (PPD) is highly necessary in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) to fill the gap … resulting from the lack of legitimate institutions, to help create transparency and trust among stakeholders, and to identify … and conflict-mitigating results are difficult to capture. However, the stakeholders that benefit from the results highly …
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The Telecommunication Sector in the Palestinian Territories : A Missed Opportunity for Economic Development
World Bank Group - 2016
The Telecommunications Sector Assessment Note in the Palestinian territories is a knowledge product prepared by the World Bank in response to a specific request from the Palestinian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology (MTIT) to assess the performance of the...
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Identification for Development : Morocco
World Bank Group - 2014
The report is organized as follows. Section two reviews the identity ecosystem in Morocco. The section discusses in detail five identification programs that seem to have complementary strengths and that can be considered as assets. These are the national identity (CNIE), the civil register, the...
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