This issue focuses on ways to tackle
persistent flooding and economic vulnerabilities in the
agricultural sector for Guyana. In January 2005 extreme and
prolonged rainfall...
This story highlights the regional
conference on sustainable mining convenes African leaders in
Cote d’Ivoire. South-South knowledge exchange on mining
fiscal and legal...
This story highlights FYR Macedonia’s
rural households earn less than their urban counterparts and
tend to have limited access to the Internet. To improve
rural connectivity,...
Type: BriefReport#: 166849Date: July 23, 2014Author:
Gelvanovska-Garcia,Natalija ;
Viatchaninova, Zhenia
A growing body of research documents the
damaging consequences of child marriage. Compared with their
peers who marry later, child brides are more likely to drop
out...
This brief focuses on the Tamil Nadu
Irrigated Agriculture Modernization and Water Bodies
Restoration Management Project. Its objective is for
selected stakeholders...
Type: BriefReport#: 179356Date: July 21, 2014Author:
World Bank
This brief focuses the Tamil Nadu
Puducherry Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction Project, which
aims to increase the resilience of coastal communities in
Tamil Nadu and...
Type: BriefReport#: 179355Date: July 21, 2014Author:
World Bank
Environment and natural resource crimes
threaten ecosystems, food security and livelihoods. The poor
are usually the most affected. The World Bank is a leading
financier...
Turkey embarked on an ambitious
privatization path in 1984 by introducing the first law on
privatization. Over the last four decades, the number of
State-Owned Enterprises...
Type: BriefReport#: 180588Date: July 14, 2014Author:
World Bank
This story highlights the Myanmar
officially recognized as a Candidate of the Extractive
Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). EITI strengthens
civil society participation...
This story highlights Tanzania has made
huge progress over the past decade in getting children into
school but learning outcomes have been declining as schools
cope...
The latest EU11 Regular Economic Report
(EU 11 RER) showcases economic progress across the
sub-region, with growth expected to nearly double from 1.4%
in 2013 to 2.6%...
Type: BriefReport#: 180660Date: July 11, 2014Author:
World Bank
This story highlights the oil companies
and governments are increasingly seeking solutions to reduce
flaring of natural gas at oil production sites. The World
Bank Group...
This story highlights the Mexico sees
urban energy efficiency as critical for sustainable growth,
livable cities, and Competitiveness. Ministry of Energy
rolls out national...
At least 80 percent of all content on
the Internet is in one of 10 languages: English, Chinese,
Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Arabic, French,
Russian, and Korean....
The dynamism of air traffic markets in
the Middle East obscures the persistence of restrictions on
international competition. But how important are such
restrictions...
Informal trade supports the livelihood
of hundreds of thousands of households in Africa, reaches
markets and clients that are underserved by formal channels,
and contributes...
The willingness of banks and investors
to support new businesses depends a great deal on the rules
that govern failing businesses. Effective insolvency regimes
save...
Type: BriefReport#: 90759Date: July 1, 2014Author:
Menezes,Antonia Preciosa
This paper begins by offering a
framework for understanding how different influences or
levers affect costs and revenues and uses examples to
explain how the framework...
Since the first Justice Sector Public
Expenditure Review (JPER) was conducted in Bulgaria in 2008,
interest in the application of PER methodologies to justice
sector...
Type: BriefReport#: 119828Date: July 1, 2014Author:
Gramckow,Heike P. ;
Fernandez-Monge,Fernando
Policies in MENA countries often limit
competition and job creation by constraining firm startup
and productivity growth. Policies have often been captured
by a handful...
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