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Chile : A Strategy to Promote Innovative Small and Medium Enterprises

World Bank - 2013

This study is to provide the Government of Chile with a review of the portfolio of small and medium enterprise (SMEs … evolution of the macroeconomic and business environment in Chile, and provides the theoretical arguments upon which the …), Agricultural Development Institute (Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario) (INDAP) and Technical Cooperation Service of Chile …

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Philippines - Public Expenditure Review : Strengthening Public Finance for More Inclusive Growth

World Bank - 2012

This Public Expenditure Review analyzes trends in revenues, expenditures and development outcomes over the past 10 years. Its main findings are that, since the late 1990s, the Philippines has been caught in a low-revenue, low-expenditure trap and that the current level of public revenues is not...

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Poland - Mazowieckie Public Expenditure Review Local Responses to the Global Economic Crisis

World Bank - 2012

This report examines the fiscal prospects of major units of sub-national government in the voivodship (province) of Mazowieckie and proposes a series of reforms in recurrent spending and capital investment planning. Mazowieckie, the seat of Warsaw, is the heart of the Polish economy. While...

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Brazil : Inequality and Economic Development, Volume 1. Policy Report

World Bank - 2013

The present Report is motivated by the coming together o f three widespread perceptions about inequality, two somewhat newer and one long-standing. The two newer ones are; (i) that inequality may matter for the country's economic development, and (ii) that public policy can and should do...

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Montenegro : Beyond the Peak, Growth Policies and Fiscal Constraints, Public Expenditure and Institutional Review

World Bank - 2012

In 2007, Montenegro was one of the world's fastest growing non-oil economies. The country reaped the benefits from its comprehensive, pre-independence reform program. After the international recognition of statehood had removed the lingering uncertainty over Montenegro's political status,...

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Lessons from World Bank Research on Financial Crises

World Bank - 2012

The benefits of financial development and globalization have come with continuing fragility in financial sectors. Periodic crises have had real but heterogeneous welfare impacts and not just for poor people; indeed, some of the conditions that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of...

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Tackling Poverty in Northern Ghana

World Bank - 2012

Twenty years of rapid economic development in Ghana has done little, if anything, to reduce the historical North, South divide in standards of living. While rural development and urbanization have led to significant poverty reduction in the South, similar dynamics have been largely absent from...

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Jamaica - Country Economic Memorandum : Unlocking Growth

World Bank - 2012

The objective of this report is to identify the main obstacles to longer term growth in Jamaica. The report takes a holistic approach, examining a large set of economic and social factors that may be hindering growth and filtering them through a growth diagnostic analysis to narrow the focus to...

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Republic of Tajikistan - Country Economic Memorandum : Tajikistan???s Quest for Growth: Stimulating Private Investment

World Bank - 2012

The Tajik government in its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for 2010-12 set an ambitious target of doubling Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in a decade. Tajikistan clearly has the potential to grow at more than seven percent a year as it has done in the recent past, but it is not going to be easy....

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Turkey - Country Economic Memorandum Informality : Causes, Consequences, Policies

World Bank - 2012

Informality in Turkey, using various definitions, and despite the signs of a recent decline in certain segments of the economy, is widespread. The level of informality is not excessively high, however, taking into account Turkey's level of income. While firm non-registration is not very common,...

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