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Shoe Molds and Scuba Divers: How Natural Disasters Affect Our Supply Chains

Like the massive earthquake in Japan earlier this year, the floods in Thailand are again exposing the vulerabilities of fragmented global supply chains.Last month, a team of economists from PREM’s...

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Shoe molds and scuba divers: How natural disasters affect our supply chains

Like the massive earthquake in Japan earlier this year, the floods in Thailand are again exposing the vulnerabilities of fragmented global supply chains.Last month, a team of economists from PREM's...

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Shoe molds and scuba divers: How natural disasters affect our supply chains

Photo courtesy of ianmyles through a Creative Commons licenseAvailable in ภาษาไทยLike the massive earthquake in Japan earlier this year, the floods in Thailand are again exposing the vulnerabilities of...

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Some Types of Foreign Investment Are Better Than Others: A Look at Factors...

Despite being a small, poor, landlocked country, Lesotho leveraged foreign direct investment (FDI) to become Africa’s largest apparel-exporting country, generating upwards of 50,000 jobs for its...

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Jobs and economic transformation for IDA countries

Policymakers the world over are concerned about jobs. It is often the first thing they talk about when World Bank delegations meet them, and the last message they leave us with on our way back to...

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Ushering in a new era for jobs and economic transformation through IDA18

With IDA18, new approaches to operations, new financial instruments, as well as new analytics and tools will help ensure we deliver on the jobs agenda. Photo: © John Hogg/World Bank On December 14th...

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5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the EU’s “Lagging regions”

Photo: Ashna MathemaEconomic growth does not evenly spread within countries: some regions benefit, while other regions lag behind. This is as true in the European Union (EU) as in most other parts of...

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Tackling job creation in North Lebanon through investment in value chains

Thomas Farole, one of the authors of the report, explains three ways of understanding North Lebanon's jobs challenges and opportunities. (Photo: Sonia Madhvani and Timothy Clay / World Bank) North...

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Shoe molds and scuba divers: How natural disasters affect our supply chains

Like the massive earthquake in Japan earlier this year, the floods in Thailand are again exposing the vulnerabilities of fragmented global supply chains. Last month, a team of economists from PREM's...

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แม่พิมพ์รองเท้ากับนักประดาน้ำ: ผลกระทบจากภัยพิบัติทางธรรมชาติต่อห่วงโซ่อุปทาน

ภาพภ่ายโดย iamyles ผ่านการใช้ลิขสิทธิ์จากครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ ยังมีอีกที่: English เช่นเดียวกับแผ่นดินไหวครั้งรุนแรงที่ญี่ปุ่นเมื่อต้นปี...

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Shoe molds and scuba divers: How natural disasters affect our supply chains

Photo courtesy of ianmyles through a Creative Commons license Available in ภาษาไทย Like the massive earthquake in Japan earlier this year, the floods in Thailand are again exposing the vulnerabilities...

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Exporting is Easy; the Challenge is Making it Sustainable

In 2009, an EU-based chemical manufacturer opened a plant inside one of FYR Macedonia’s recently-established special economic zones. The plant began production of catalysts, a type of emissions-control...

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Some Types of Foreign Investment Are Better Than Others: A Look at Factors...

Despite being a small, poor, landlocked country, Lesotho leveraged foreign direct investment (FDI) to become Africa’s largest apparel-exporting country, generating upwards of 50, 000 jobs for its...

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Jobs and economic transformation for IDA countries

Policymakers the world over are concerned about jobs. It is often the first thing they talk about when World Bank delegations meet them, and the last message they leave us with on our way back to...

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Ushering in a new era for jobs and economic transformation through IDA18

With IDA18, new approaches to operations, new financial instruments, as well as new analytics and tools will help ensure we deliver on the jobs agenda. Photo: © John Hogg/World Bank On December 14th...

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5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the EU’s “Lagging regions”

Economic growth does not evenly spread within countries: some regions benefit, while other regions lag behind. This is as true in the European Union (EU) as in most other parts of the world, despite...

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Tackling job creation in North Lebanon through investment in value chains

Thomas Farole, one of the authors of the report, explains three ways of understanding North Lebanon's jobs challenges and opportunities. (Photo: Sonia Madhvani and Timothy Clay / World Bank) North...

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Shoe molds and scuba divers: How natural disasters affect our supply chains

Like the massive earthquake in Japan earlier this year, the floods in Thailand are again exposing the vulnerabilities of fragmented global supply chains. Last month, a team of economists from PREM's...

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แม่พิมพ์รองเท้ากับนักประดาน้ำ: ผลกระทบจากภัยพิบัติทางธรรมชาติต่อห่วงโซ่อุปทาน

ภาพภ่ายโดย iamyles ผ่านการใช้ลิขสิทธิ์จากครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์ ยังมีอีกที่: English เช่นเดียวกับแผ่นดินไหวครั้งรุนแรงที่ญี่ปุ่นเมื่อต้นปี...

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Shoe molds and scuba divers: How natural disasters affect our supply chains

Photo courtesy of ianmyles through a Creative Commons license Available in ภาษาไทย Like the massive earthquake in Japan earlier this year, the floods in Thailand are again exposing the vulnerabilities...

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