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The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program has adopted a multisector approach to economic corridor development, requiring multisector investments, increased inter-sector coordination, and enhanced knowledge platform. An area of concern is facilitating safe labor migration....
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; second, how the conscripts will find employment; and third, their wage level. In order to do this, the Finnish armed forces … employment within this time span. …
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This report reviews some of the most recent literature examining the home country employment effects of … conclusion from the literature is that the absolute employment effects are modest, although there are likely to be notable … employment effects of outward foreign direct investment on the home country seem to indicate positive rather than substitution …
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debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the … pattern of male and female employment and discusses the indirect tax distortions across sectors within each country and … between countries. The possible impact of the indirect tax distortion on male and female employment is quantitatively assessed …
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health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and …
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The study investigates empirically how ownership affects firms domestic employment and its fluctuations. We look at six …-family companies). It turns out that ownership matters. Volatility of employment in listed companies is much higher than in other firms …. State-owned companies show the highest stability in employment, and they have also reduced their personnel less than others …
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The Framework of Inclusive Growth Indicators 2012 (FIGI 2012) is the follow-up edition to FIGI 2011, which proposed a set of 35 indicators as measures of income and non-income outcomes of inclusive growth; the processes and inputs that are important to improve access to opportunities, social...
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Papua New Guinea’s economic growth has outpaced the majority of economies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific since 2007. Its development challenges, however, remain daunting, and it lags behind other countries in the region in terms of per capita income and achievement of the Millennium...
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Myanmar, which is emerging from decades of isolation, is poised to accelerate its economic growth on the back of its abundant labor force, rich natural resources, and geographical location.But the country faces many development challenges to achieve strong and inclusive growth.To take advantage...
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The Monitor provides an update of developments in Pacific economies and explores topical policy issues.
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