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For Croatia, the challenge is to create conditions that will attract investment and produce growth. These conditions … financial markets, and high-quality cost-efficient infrastructure services. Croatia has already achieved substantial progress in …
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For Croatia, the challenge is to create conditions that will attract investment and produce growth. These conditions … financial markets, and high-quality cost-efficient infrastructure services. Croatia has already achieved substantial progress in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559054
opportunities for Croatia to address a number of economic challenges and join the EU as a competitive and successful economy. The … policy decisions. Once it joins the EU, Croatia will also have to contribute to the Europe 2020 strategy for smart … Croatia. A major priority for the coming two to three years will be to create fiscal space to absorb EU funds and avoid being …
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A strong and widely acknowledged record of economic success—including a three-and-ahalf- fold increase in per capita income since 1994—places Rwanda among the world’s fastest-growing economies. Traumatic memories of the 1994 genocide are gradually fading, as associations begin to take a...
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Kosovo's economic growth in the past decade has been solid, yet, with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of 1,760, the country remains one of the poorest in Europe. The end of the conflict, output was growing at double-digit rates, driven by the donor-funded reconstruction efforts. Since...
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This report undertakes a comprehensive assessment of Ukraine's growth experience over the past decade. It shows how vulnerabilities were allowed to accumulate during the economic boom. And how growth, averaging seven percent annually between 2000 and 2008, was achieved without tackling Ukraine's...
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International experience suggests that the effect of globalization on economic growth, poverty and income distribution can vary significantly among countries, and that its impact depends crucially on national policies. This report assesses the possible patterns of inequality in China in the...
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This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) - the first since 1995 - is a contribution to the government's economic recovery strategy, and to its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), being finalized. It examines Kenya's economic performance during the past decade, and identifies the structural...
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The last decade in Belarus was marked by an average economic growth rate of close to 8 percent annually and an impressive eight-fold reduction in poverty. Economic growth was initially driven by external factors, but after 2005 expansionary domestic demand became the prevalent contributor to...
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The importance of macroeconomic stability for growth, and poverty reduction is now accepted in Brazil. As of 1964, the country followed responsible macroeconomic policies, in the pursuit of stability, reconfirmed by the new Government in January 2003. The report focuses strictly on three key...
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