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WEB4 days ago · This report seeks to present micro evidence on how environmental changes affect poor households. It focuses primarily on environmental resources that are outside the private sphere, particularly commonly held and managed resources such as forests, fisheries, and wildlife. The objectives for this volume are three-fold.
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WEB2 days ago · 2024-09-20. dc.description.abstract. The global economy is facing uncertainties and a slowdown in growth and productivity that are unprecedented. The broad-based slowdown in growth rates has profound implications for the world’s ability to tackle the growing array of challenges, especially poverty and climate action, that are …
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WEB5 days ago · This book analyzes hundreds of scholarly works and thousands of publicly disclosed cyber incidents over the past decade across some 190 countries. It sheds light on these incidents’ characteristics and trends, as well as the proactive roles that private market players and governments can assume to safeguard infrastructure in cyberspace ...
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WEBDrawing on new analyses and compiling many others, the book provides important evidence to inform the design of policies to reduce the economic costs of transport and deepen the economic integration of developing countries. This book shows how understanding the frictions driving the economic costs of freight transport can help policy …
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WEB4 days ago · Abstract. How reliable are public debt statistics This paper quantifies the magnitude, characteristics, and timing of hidden debt by tracking ex post data revisions across a comprehensive new database of more than 50 vintages of World Bank debt statistics. In a sample of debt data covering 146 countries and 53 years, the paper …
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WEB5 days ago · This report aims to fill that gap by providing evidence on critical questions about the energy status of Romanian households. The report focuses on four key topics, relying on existing official household surveys and new qualitative and quantitative data collected in June–July 2023, with the aim of providing an updated snapshot of energy ...
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WEB4 days ago · Publication. The Economic Impacts of the Syrian Refugee Migration on Jordan. (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-09-10) Segnana, Juan; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Robertson, Raymond; Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso. The Syrian Civil War in 2011 led to a substantial influx of refugees into Jordan, with more than 660,000 Syrians arriving by …
WEB5 days ago · ix Foreword With approximately 5.45 billion people—about 67 percent of the global population—connected to the internet, alongside roughly 18 billion internet of
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WEB3 days ago · Publication. Regional Convergence in Brazil. (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-09-11) Abreha, Kaleb; Ornelas, Rafael; Zaourak, Gabriel. This paper examines whether labor productivity converged across Brazil’s states (“departments”) between 2002 and 2018. The results show strong evidence of unconditional convergence in which …
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WEB3 days ago · This data-driven approach ensures efficient resource allocation, evidence-based policies, and measurable outcomes. This report, funded by the EU, supports Croatia’s Ministry of Labor, Pension System, Family, and Social Policy in using registers and administrative data for informed decision-making on poverty-targeted policies and …