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Environment Matters at the World Bank : Annual Review 2005 [PDF]
, 2005 In line with one of the major themes in the Bank's Environment Strategy, this 2005 annual review is devoted to the theme of environmental health. Viewpoint articles in this edition reflect several external
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Environment Matters at the World Bank, 2009 Annual Review : Banking on Biodiversity [PDF]
, 2010 This issue of environment matters celebrates the 2010 international year of biodiversity and describes some of the challenges and opportunities in protecting biodiversity for the benefit of humankind. From
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World Bank Group Evaluation Principles [PDF]
, 2019 The World Bank Group is committed to its twin goals: to eradicate extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. The World Bank Group’s Forward Look – A Vision for the World Bank Group in
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, 2023 As the largest external financier of education in low- and middle-income countries, the World Bank is committed to ensuring that all children around the world have free, inclusive, equitable, and quality education
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Economic Contraction from COVID-19 in the Pacific: Implications for Health Financing
Health Systems & Reform, 2020 Pacific Island countries (PIC) have emerged as among the most at-risk globally from the collateral economic damage resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, despite being largely spared its direct health effects so far.
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The World Bank’s publication record [PDF]
The Review of International Organizations, 2011 The World Bank claims to be a-knowledge bank, but do its knowledge products influence development thinking, or is the Bank merely a proselytizer? The World Bank is a prolific publisher; for example, it has published more journal articles in economics than any university except Harvard. But what about their impact on development thinking? Using citation
Ravallion, Martin, Wagstaff, Adam
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Journal of Applied Economics, 2019 Agriculture important in Africa, employing a large share of the labor force and earning foreign exchange. Transport connectivity has long been a crucial constraint in the region.
Atsushi Iimi +3 more
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Cheaper, Faster, and More Than Good Enough: Is GPS the New Gold Standard in Land Area Measurement?
Survey Research Methods, 2017 In rural societies of low- and middle-income countries, land is a major measure of wealth, a critical input in agricultural production, and a key variable for assessing agricultural performance and productivity. In the absence of cadastral information to
Calogero Carletto +3 more
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Gender Impacts of COVID-19 on the Labor Market and Household Wellbeing in Pakistan
Review of Economic Analysis, 2022 This study examines the gender impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market and household wellbeing, using an online survey of the users of Pakistan’s largest online job platform. The analysis shows that the pandemic led to an unprecedented level
Emcet O. Tas +3 more
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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 2008 The control of human onchocerciasis (river blindness) is one of the most successful global partnerships ever supported by the World Bank. Mectizan mass treatments have greatly contributed to this success and have shaped the strategies of the programmes in which the World Bank has been involved - the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP), which covered
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