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Boosting Financial Resilience to Disaster Shocks : Good Practices and New Frontiers

World Bank Group - 2019

Governments face growing contingent liabilities from disasters as they tend to shoulder a significant share of disaster response and recovery costs. Disaster shocks increase government expenditure and hamper economic activities. An increasing number of countries are developing financial...

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Somalia Economic Update, June 2020 : Impact of COVID-19 - Policies to Manage the Crisis and Strengthen Economic Recovery

World Bank Group - 2020

Before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, Somalia's economy was on an upward trajectory, recovering from the 2016/17 drought. The economy grew at an estimated rate of 2.9 percent in 2019, on par with population growth, and was projected to grow at 3.2 percent in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has...

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International Debt Report 2023

World Bank Group - 2024

The International Debt Report (IDR) is a longstanding annual publication of the World Bank featuring external debt … statistics and analysis for the 122 countries that report to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. IDR 2023 is the 50th annual … products, please visit the World Bank's Debt Statistics website at www.worldbank.org/debtstatistics …

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International Debt Report 2022 : Updated International Debt Statistics

World Bank Group - 2022

of the World Bank featuring external debt statistics and analysis for the 121 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs …) that report to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. IDR 2022 includes (1) an analyses of external debt stocks and flows … the past decade; (3) a focus on how the World Bank has sought to enhance data quality and transparency against the …

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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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Chongqing 2035 : An Innovation Strategy to Climb Up the Value Chain and Create the Conditions for a Skilled Labor Force

World Bank Group - 2019

The innovation economy has become a driving force in transforming entire industries, which has been happening at an accelerated pace. Cities are making massive investments in innovation and research and development (RandD) to support and attract technology-driven industries that are leading the...

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CEMAC : Deepening Regional Integration to Advance Growth and Prosperity

World Bank Group - 2018

The Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), which consists of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, is one of the oldest regional groupings in Africa. The main objectives for achieving this are: (i) the creation of a...

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Rwanda- Joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis

World Bank Group - 2019

An updated joint assessment of Rwanda's debt sustainability suggests continued low risk of external debt distress. External debt burden indicators remain below risk thresholds, except for a short and temporary breach of debt service indicators in 2023, when the Eurobond issued in 2013 matures....

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Togo- Joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis

World Bank Group - 2019

Togo's risk of external debt distress continues to be moderate, while the overall risk of debt distress is high-unchanged from the previous Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) published in December 2018. While the mechanical results point to a low risk of external debt distress, judgment was...

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Where is the Value in the Chain? : Pathways out of Plastic Pollution

World Bank Group - 2022

Plastics have been a development driver for decades but have turned into a development problem due to their omnipresence in the environment. Marine litter and plastic pollution have attracted much attention and commitments from governments and the private sector alike in the past few years....

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