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programs whose aim is to eliminate market constraints predominate those that can be achieved through interpersonal income …
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drastically. Income poverty remains high. People’s access to energy, water, communications, education, and health services …
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This paper reviews the fiscal reform of the Czech Republic, its key reform measures, and structural implications. The study also focuses on key challenges and demographic pressures facing the Czech economy, and describes the analytical framework of Global Fiscal Model (GFM) with technical...
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by sector, industrial employment by sector, indicators of hidden unemployment, selected labor market indicators …, unemployment rate by regions, consumer price inflation and CPI weights, industrial producer prices, wages, pensions and per capita … income, federal government budget execution, regional and local government operations, extrabudgetary fund operations …
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This Selected Issues paper on the Republic of Estonia highlights its growth performance relative to other countries in the European Union (EU). Estonia has experienced a period of unprecedented growth since the mid-1990s. Between 1995 and 2005, Estonia’s real GDP per capita rose by an...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes unemployment and education in Namibia. Using the Afrobarometer Project survey data …, and unemployment. The paper finds that unemployment probabilities depend on the level of education. The paper also … alleviate poverty and reduce income inequality over time. …
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This paper assesses Estonia’s flexibility from two angles. The paper focuses on one aspect of that performance—the ability to sustain competitiveness. Then, a more forward-looking angle is the flexibility of Estonia’s labor and product markets. Estonia has made great...
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The staff report for the 2006 Article IV Consultation on Botswana highlights economic developments and monetary and exchange rate policy. Botswana’s growth has been fueled by continued increases in diamond production; and real diamond output is projected to level off, and then decline...
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various tax rates lead to lower budget deficits in the long run, as a result of an expanding tax base and lower unemployment …
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relatively minor intervention can dramatically increase the fragility of jobs, the length of unemployment spells, as well as the … extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different …
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