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Indonesian cities carried out 22 business reforms to make it easier to start and operate a business, reducing average time by more than 25% since 2010. |
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Quarterly Food Prices Decline, but Remain Volatile
The Bank's latest Food Price Watch reports that global food prices declined 8% between September and December of 2011 due to increasing supplies and uncertainty about the global economy, but remain volatile and high with the 2011 annual index 24% higher than its average in 2010. Read more |
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World Bank Approves Program-for-Results - New Financing Instrument Ties Lending Directly To Verified Development Results
PforR will support government programs in a diverse range of countries and sectors. It will also help improve the transparency and accountability of developing country programs, and strengthen systems to fight fraud and corruption. Read more |
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New World Bank Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific to Visit Indonesia
While in the country, Ms. Cox will meet with government counterparts and opinion makers to get a better sense about the challenges and aspirations of emerging middle-income countries like Indonesia. Read more |
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Regional Governance Hub Newsletter - January 2012
News digest featuring governance news, features, blogs, and publications from the Bank and partners. Read more |
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Indonesia: Multi Donor Fund for Aceh and Nias Enters Its Final Year on a High Note; Partnerships Delivered Promised Results
In its Progress Report 2011, the program highlights key achievements in its reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in Aceh and Nias to date, in which strong leadership of the national and regional Governments has been the cornerstone of success. Read more |
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DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and World Bank Officially Start Flood Mitigation Project
The project will rehabilitate sections of a number of major waterways in the city, repair embankments where necessary, and replace or repair mechanical equipment such as pumps and gates. Read more |
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Indonesia: Report Launch of 2012 Southeast Sulawesi Province Public Expenditure Analysis
In the last five years, Southeast Sulawesi’s economic growth has been consistently higher than the national average. Poverty rate has dropped, as well as the province’s rate of unemployment. However, the province still faces a number of challenges—its economic growth has not been able to lift the per capita gross regional domestic production, and quality of life needs to be improved. Read more |
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Strengthening Rural Livelihood Through Cross-Regional Knowledge Sharing in Lao PDR
Eleven Asian countries participated in a regional workshop focusing on community driven development and improvement of rural livelihood. Read more |
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Government, World Bank Sign Financing Agreement to Improve Delivery of Services to Poor Towns and Provinces in the Philippines
The US$50 million financing will fund the Regional Infrastructure for Growth Project designed to stimulate physical and economic integration among a number of local government units as well as support post-disaster initiatives through improved access to finance. Read more |
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World Bank Supports Vietnam to Tackle its Climate Change Challenges
The World Bank Board of Directors approved the Vietnam Climate Change Development Policy Operation, the first of a series of three operations to support the development and adoption of priority actions to strengthen policies, strategies and institutions needed to respond to Climate Change. Read more |
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