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Gender equality is central to the World Bank Group's (WBG) twin goals of ending extreme poverty and increasing shared … in the world. These challenges increase trade costs and make it difficult for the Pacific Island countries to trade …
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This report has eight chapters. Following the introduction (Pacific Peoples and the Sea), the next six chapters each focus on a separate significant component of Pacific maritime transport, analyzing the major influences and challenges, and, where relevant, key areas for future attention. The...
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infrastructure provision worldwide. Geographically, this report focuses on two of the world's fastest growing regions, East Asia and … Pacific (EAP) and South Asia (SAR), which also account for approximately 35.8 percent of the world's extreme poor. The report …
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Growth in the developing East Asia and Pacific region slowed sharply in 2020Q1 because of the negative impact of the … in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region is projected to slow from 5.8 percent in 2019 to lower-than-expected [5 …
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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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challenges to agricultural input regulation and trade during transition and EU accession -concluding comments by the World Bank. …
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This is one of a series of handbooks which have arisen from a Surveillance project to evaluate agricultural price and trade interventions to eight Latin American countries for seven commodities for the period 1984 to 1994. The countries included in this Surveillance project are Argentina,...
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The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) is a temporary migration scheme between Australia and selected Pacific Island Countries. It was introduced in 2012 and covers the agriculture, accommodation and tourism sectors. Extensive efforts have been made to evaluate the economic impacts of the scheme, but...
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