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World Bank Group - 2021

geotechnical issues and recommended risk mitigation and management measures. The investigation, design, and construction of dams …

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Myanmar : Analysis of Farm Production Economics

World Bank Group - 2016

This report was prepared by the World Bank in partnership with the Livelihoods and Food Security Multi-Donor Trust Fund (LIFT). Both the World Bank and the LIFT are actively involved in supporting Myanmar's agriculture sector given its significance in poverty reduction and food security, and...

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An Overview of Agricultural Pollution in the Philippines : The Crops Sector 2016

World Bank Group - 2016

The Philippine archipelago emerged because of the dynamic shifting and collision of four plates: Continental Eurasian plate, Indian-Australian plate, Oceanic Pacific plate, and the Philippine Sea plate. In the past 100 million years, the archipelago was welded together in an island arc...

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Productive Diversification of African Agriculture and Its Effects on Resilience and Nutrition

World Bank Group - 2018

The agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the backbone of national economies, sustaining rural and urban livelihoods alike, and providing food and income for the majority of households. Recent agriculture growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been solid and has supported improvements...

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Myanmar Rice and Pulses : Farm Production Economics and Value Chain Dynamics

World Bank Group - 2019

Agriculture continues to play a very important role in Myanmar's economy. For many years, understanding the dynamics and performance of Myanmar's agriculture has been difficult due to the absence of reliable, up-to-date data, at sectoral, sub-sectoral, or microeconomic level. During the past...

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Agricultural Productivity, Diversification and Gender : Background Report to Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment

World Bank Group - 2021

Identifying opportunities to increase agricultural productivity and incomes is an important priority for rural development. Progress toward poverty reduction continued in recent years, but the contribution of the agriculture sector was weak, mainly because productivity improvements were...

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Niger Investing in Human Capital, Agricultural Productivity, and Social Protection for Faster Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment

World Bank Group - 2021

Niger earns its foreign exchange mainly from uranium and gold, which has limited domestic economic linkages. Distant second, livestock export also provide important revenue to the country. Overall, most of the labor force is employed in a low productivity and shock prone rainfed agricultural...

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Kosovo Country Economic Memorandum, November 2021 : Raising Agricultural Productivity

World Bank Group - 2021

Igniting farm productivity can support growth and job creation in Kosovo. Agricultural production, in real terms, has been decreasing in Kosovo since 2009 but employment has not changed much. This note examines drivers of agricultural productivity and its growth in Kosovo, and implied...

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Strategic Framework for the Financial Management of Disaster Risk

World Bank Group - 2015

. Actions taken by the GoP in financial management of disaster risk are consistent with law 34 of June 5, 2008, the law on … integrated framework of fiscal risk management; (ii) ensure that governments have access to immediate funds following a disaster …: (i) identification, quantification, and understanding of fiscal risk due to disasters; (ii) incorporation of disaster …

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Fiscal Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing Options : Sri Lanka

World Bank Group - 2016

comprehensive disaster risk financing and insurance strategy that would equip the Ministry of Finance with additional instruments to …

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