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Drawing on various macro- and micro-data sources, the authors present robust evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation and inequality. Overall, female labor force participation is found to have a strong and significant dis-equalizing impact in at...
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agreements (IIAs) have been found to be less important (World Bank, 2018). To harness the advantages of FDI, it is critical that … adopted at the 11th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2017 called for the start of … geography of economic power in the world. Their increased role has led to a shift of policy agendas, focusing on practical …
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To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, developing countries need additional funding. Funding can come from four sources: domestic public resources (or revenues), international public resources, domestic private resources or international private resources. Of these four...
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"This inaugural issue of the World Bank Groupl's Global Investment Competitiveness report presents novel analytical …
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Investments in climate change mitigation will have to rise massively in the coming years in order to keep the global temperature increase below 1.5°C. Rising levels of investment in mitigation can reduce the impacts of climate change. Yet, they also increase the risk that these investments...
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