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India has the world's highest reported number of annual road crash fatalities. According to the World Health Organization, road crash fatalities in India account for approximately 11 percent of the estimated 1.35 million global toll each year. Vulnerable road users, primarily pedestrians,...
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Road crash deaths and injuries in Nepal have been on a sharp upward trajectory since the early 2000s. In fi scal year 2017-18, 2,541 road deaths were offi cially reported in Nepal, which is equivalent to a fatality rate of 8.59 per 100,000 population. In the same period, 4,144 serious injury and...
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High road crash fatality and injury rates on Sri Lanka's roads are undermining the economic growth and progress made over the past decade on reducing poverty and boosting prosperity. Estimated annual road crash deaths per capita in Sri Lanka are twice the average rate in high-income countries...
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The Country Opinion Survey in Angola assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in Angola perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments …, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Angola on 1) their views regarding the …
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wealth allowed Angola to sustain a long civil conflict and to pay for post-conflict reconstruction, but it will not allow … Angola to reach higher stages on the development ladder.Angola faces two broad policy challenges that need to be addressed … challenges and has started to carry-out much needed adjustment.The objective of these Angola Policy Notes, written from the …
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Angola is endowed with significant natural wealth, but it will need to better manage these resources and reinvest them …, and Angola has suffered periods of fiscal contraction due to fluctuations in commodity prices. Although the country has … a window of opportunity for political and economic reform that will allow Angola to put itself on a path toward …
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identifies opportunities for enhancing the sectors' contribution to both the national and local economies in Angola (Section two … current policy and institutional framework for addressing climate change in Angola and proposes opportunities to support these … change.A World Bank mission was organized to Angola in October 2018, and collected data relevant to the study and discussed …
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has not delivered inclusive growth and shared prosperity. Angola faces two broad policy challenges that need to be … of these challenges and has started to implement much needed reforms. Angola is right to focus on reforms that lay the … that there are significant gains to be had from such reforms. The objective of this report on Angola is to support policy …
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Angola is the third-largest economy in the Sub-Saharan Africa and is classified as a low-middle income economy. The … incidence of poverty in Angola as of 2019 based on a monetary measure of welfare (monthly food and non-food consumption … rural areas in Angola is reflected in a large inequality at the national level. The Gini coefficient in Angola is 0.51 which …
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