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Despite being the largest food producer of the country, Mindanao remains Philippines' poorest region. At the heart of Mindanao's high poverty rate is the region's weak ability to transform its natural advantage into a competitive one in domestic and foreign markets. This report examines the key...
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The World Bank prepared three background studies as inputs for the development of the Cambodia Logistics Master Plan …) an update of trade competitiveness, (b) a review of the legal and regulatory framework of the logistics sector in … Cambodia, and (c) a design of the monitoring and evaluation (MandE) framework for the proposed Cambodia Logistics Master Plan …
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wage demands from workers, intensifying global price competition, and inefficient logistics are putting significant cost … pressure on Bangladeshi producers. This report presents a comprehensive assessment of logistics performance, its root causes … improve logistics performance …
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and support its development; (iv) develop a transnational regulatory framework; and (v) build capacity in the logistics …
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and logistics connectivity and service delivery and to define the building blocks of a comprehensive strategy by (a … advancing the institutional reforms, (c) identifying main transport and logistics gaps and barriers, and (d) presenting … opportunities for introducing innovative financing mechanisms and PPPs in transport and logistics. At the same time, the paper …
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Transport and logistics services in Myanmar have been substantially hit by the impacts of the February 2021 coup and … the surge in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Logistics companies have been affected by rising fuel prices … inland transport services. Transportation and logistics services are expected to be severely impacted by continuing high fuel …
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Cambodia is now weathering an oil price shock, just as the economy had started to recover amid a rollback of Coronavirus (COVID-19)-related restrictions. Negative impacts of the oil price shock are amplified by Cambodia's already large external imbalances. Rising food and energy prices have...
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The Paris Agreement introduced a bottom-up approach for addressing climate change by enabling countries to pledge individual commitments through nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Furthermore, Article 6 of the Paris Agreement recognizes that Parties may engage in bilateral cooperative...
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This handbook has been developed to provide instruction on the design and implementation of incentives for resource-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource-efficiency program in a country on behalf of the...
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a poor safety record. Logistics cost accounts for 24-53 percent of wholesale price, while shipping and port handling … behind its neighbors in various logistics performance and connectivity indices. For instance, in liner shipping connectivity …
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