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Targeting motorcycle users to improve traffic safety in Latin America
Motorcycle riders and passengers have long been vulnerable users of motorized transport. In the Americas, with the increasing ownership of motorcycles, given the ease and lower costs, this trend is...
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Building pro-growth coalition for reforms: The Caribbean Growth Forum
What does it take to make reforms work in small island countries? At the end of June 2013, twelve Caribbean countries presented a roadmap for growth in three areas -logistics and connectivity,...
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The Bangladesh Remittance Story Reaffirmed
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has just released a Survey on the Use of Remittances. The survey provides interesting update on the demographic and economic characteristics of the 8.6...
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Health Information Systems: The New Penicillin… And It's In Use in Barbados!
Penicillin was discovered almost 90 years ago and heralded the beginning of a revolutionary era in medicine. As the first antibiotic drug in existence, it was used to treat what had previously been...
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Also available in: Français | العربية A boat trip from Port Elizabeth to Kingstown, in the Caribbean country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, is a one-hour trip that locals take several times a...
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Caribbean PPPs come of age: Boot camp-style workshops kick off new approach...
Street scene in Delmas, Haiti “Plantain nu eat like rice” — a Caribbean saying roughly translated as “Make do with what is available to you” — applies to the region’s experience with public-private...
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It has been almost four years since I first became involved with the regional public-private dialogue initiative, the Caribbean Growth Forum (CGF). In June 2012, I walked into the conference room at...
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Why are energy subsidy reforms so unpopular?
It is well established in the economic literature that it’s the rich who benefit from the lion’s share of energy subsidies. Yet, it is often the poor and vulnerable who protest loudly against these...
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One Year After the Storms: Five Ideas for Building Back Stronger in the...
The Caribbean on the road to resilience One year after hurricanes Irma and Maria swept through the Caribbean, leaving a trail of devastation and turmoil, the calm seems to have returned to the region...
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