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Lessons from Korea's Energy Efficiency Policies in the Industrial Sector

World Bank Group - 2023

In an economy driven by its vital industrial sector, tackling the advancing threats of high energy consumption and GHG emissions has been a key challenge for pursuing energy efficiency in Korea. To aid policy makers promote energy efficiency in the industry sector, this report offers a...

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Green Incentives for Climate Competitive Industries : A Practitioner's Handbook

World Bank Group - 2016

-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource … energy-efficiency issues as this is the particular focus of the World Bank's Climate Competitive Industries program, and is …

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Climate Competitive Industries : A Practitioner's Handbook

World Bank Group - 2016

nowhere is this issue more significant than in the world's emerging economies. Governments and industry must work together to … tackle this challenge. The World Bank Group's Climate Competitive Industries (CCI) initiative aims to assist client … opportunities presented. This Module also provides an introduction to the World Bank Group's CCI initiative introduces the …

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Bhutan's Business Infrastructure Policy and Industrial Parks

World Bank Group - 2019

Between 2010 and 2018, Bhutan's economic performance in the real growth of gross domestic product (GDP) was respectable, averaging more than 5 percent a year. This was driven by hydropower, services, and agriculture. However, there is growing pressure to diversify production. Hydropower...

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Convergence : Five Critical Steps toward Integrating Lagging and Leading Areas in the Middle East and North Africa

World Bank Group - 2020

Policy makers across the Middle East and North Africa have for many years articulated plans to integrate their people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring communities together and narrow economic gaps, governments have made large capital investments in transport corridors and "new...

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Convergence without Equity : A Closer Look at Spatial Disparities in Russia

World Bank Group - 2017

Addressing regional disparities is key to unlocking Russia's potential to achieve stronger gains in growth and equity outcomes as well as to improve its institutional environment. While spatial disparities have been an important policy concern in Russia for a long time, inequalities across its...

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Romania Regional Hospital Analysis Study : Regional Referral Networks in Romania

World Bank Group - 2018

World Bank undertook a comprehensive assessment of regional referral networks in Romania. This report drew on available …

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Rolling Back Russia's Spatial Disparities : Re-assembling the Soviet Jigsaw Under a Market Economy

World Bank Group - 2018

compared to seemingly similar countries such as Australia and Canada. While Australia and Canada also have large land masses … contrast, Russia's people are more dispersed inland. Moreover, the populations of Australia and Canada are concentrated in … for 42 percent of the world's land mass but its population is less than 1.9 percent of the world's population. In addition …

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Disparate Outcomes : A Multisectoral Nutrition Assessment and Gap Analysis of Vietnam's Ethnic Minority Populations

World Bank Group - 2019

On average, Vietnam has achieved remarkable improvements in nutritional status in recent decades, but improvements in national aggregates mask wide disparities and a persistent 'very high' burden among disadvantaged ethnic minority groups. Between 2000 and 2010, national stunting rates dropped...

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Mind the Rural Investment Gap : Disparities in Access to Basic Infrastructure and Directions for Mozambique's Public Investment Program

World Bank Group - 2019

Against the backdrop of increasing income inequality, this report uses spatial analysis to assesses whether disparities in access to basic infrastructure between Mozambique's lagging and leading regions are growing or declining and whether the public expenditure program is effective in...

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