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Poverty risk is most marked for children, displaced persons and returnees, unemployed, and people with low education. Basic goals of the macroeconomic framework of the mid-term development strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina are to reduce the overall public expenditures, lower the public debt,...
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This Selected Issues paper on the Slovak Republic reviews efficiency and reform of the health sector. The immediate challenge for the health care system in the Slovak Republic is to improve health sector outcomes while containing public health spending. The Slovak health care system is...
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This paper discusses key findings of the annual progress report on implementing the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS)—Nigeria’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. The progress report highlights key accomplishments and shortcomings as well as outstanding...
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The past century has been marked by rapid advances in human welfare. People in most parts of the world are healthier and are living longer. While this trend is likely to continue, hopes are fading in some regions where progress slowed or stopped in the1990s, primarily as a result of the AIDS...
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catching-up has been so much slower in Poland than in its regional peers, and whether this might hamper Poland's long … Poland. Section II.E concludes the chapter. …
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In March 1999, Poland implemented a systemic pension reform that involved the introduction of a multi-pillar pension … note on the pension sector was elaborated as part of the Poland Financial Sector Assessment Program, or FSAP update that …
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This 2009 Article IV Consultation highlights that Poland’s rapid growth had begun to lose steam even before the global …
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes the use of fiscal rules in Poland and also suggests improvements. The study reviews …
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Poland’s macroeconomic performance was strong in the decade leading up to the global crisis. Poland’s commitments to … supervisory framework helped foster a well-capitalized banking system. A successor Flexible Credit Line arrangement for Poland … will play an important role in supporting the government’s economic policy strategy. Although Poland’s underlying …
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This paper examines the relationship between macroeconomic stabilization and market-oriented reform in planned economies. It emphasizes that market-oriented reform should enhance the likelihood that adjustment to exogenous disturbances will involve genuine adjustment in the sense of actually...
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