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Bulgaria: Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key constraints to growth suggested by cross-country competitiveness studies. Bulgaria’s GDP has grown substantially since economic and financial stabilization in 1997. The global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245618
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Economic transformation and income distribution in China over three decades
Cai, Meng; Gustafsson, Björn; Knight, John B. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2023
It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China, from being on a par with Sub Sahara Africa at the start of economic reform to being an economic superpower today. That rise remains under-researched. Moreover, the great structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466806
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Botswana : Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2012
Poverty and unemployment remained high in Botswana. The shortcomings of the labor market policies are responsible for a … high unemployment rate. This selected issues paper sheds considerable light on ways that Botswana can enhance inclusive … growth and reduce the high level of structural unemployment. Botswana was identified as having been able to sustain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395662
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Botswana : Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2008
competitiveness obstacles that could explain the low labor productivity and poor export and export diversification outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014405503
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Portugal; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
evidence suggests that the negative impact of high labor adjustment costs on productivity is more intense for small- and medium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825549
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Italy; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Based on the economic literature, various policy measures and institutions in the product and labor markets that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244125
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Republic of Korea: selected issues
Eskesen, Leif - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009504217
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Growth, employment, and poverty in Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017
This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Our analysis answers the following broad questions: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480417
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Growth, employment, and poverty in Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017
This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Its analysis answers the following broad questions: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653940
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Kenya; Poverty Reduction Strategy Annual Progress Report: 2003/2004
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
Kenya’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Annual progress report highlights that sound macroeconomic management policies are finally beginning to yield results in terms of macroeconomic growth, which is the underpinning for future poverty reduction. A high degree of price stability has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242927