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Productivity-enhancing measures play a pivotal role in Malaysia's aspirations of becoming a high-income economy …. Malaysia has enjoyed an impressive growth performance over the past few decades, with growth rates of at least 7 percent per …, Malaysia has faced challenges in pivoting away from a 'low-cost, high-volume' strategy towards a 'high-value' one. Small and …
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This study is focused on Clean Team, a social enterprise providing container-based sanitation (CBS) services in Kumasi …, the second-largest city in Ghana with a population of 2.7 million in 2018. Clean Team is owned by Water and Sanitation for … the Urban Poor (WSUP), a nonprofit partnership between the private sector, civil society, and academia. Clean Team …
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The Digital Government Readiness Assessment (DGRA) Toolkit is a knowledge product developed as a global public good to help client countries leaders in digital agenda and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector assess their current status, as well as their aspirations in digital...
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The objective of this Technical Note is to provide task teams and task team leaders (TTLs) with tools for designing and …
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Over the last two decades, successive governments and business leaders in the former Yugoslav Republic of (FYR) Macedonia have been actively working to transform the country's economy and put it on a higher, technology-based, growth trajectory. For a small, landlocked country with a limited...
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Industries create jobs, catalyze investments, and bring technological advancement to a country. However, as industries expand across borders and become increasingly complex, so do their risks, including impacts from disasters and climate change. Disasters,1 including earthquakes and extreme...
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The main objective of this report is to provide an intermediate step toward building more energy-efficient economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The present study complements the 2009 Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) report by providing a quantitative...
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Climate variability and resource scarcity pose an increasing threat to the growth and competitiveness of industry, and nowhere is this issue more significant than in the world's emerging economies. Governments and industry must work together to tackle this challenge. The World Bank Group's...
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Direct current (DC) space-cooling fans are widely recognized for their superior energy efficiency and better overall performance compared to alternating current (AC) fans. In general, DC motors consume up to 70 percent less power than AC alternatives, and operate more quietly at a lower voltage....
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