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The global crisis has underscored the need for effective global financial safety nets to protect countries with sound policy frameworks from adverse outcomes. Complementing the traditional crisis resolution role of the IMF, which has been instrumental during the recent crisis and is expected to...
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This paper reviews Azerbaijan’s State Program on Poverty Reduction and Economic Development 2003–2005 (SPPRED). The … Poverty Reduction Program in Azerbaijan has attracted an extensive and high degree of interest, matching its complexity and … scope. The main objective of the SPPRED is to define and measure poverty in Azerbaijan using a variety of indicators …
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The report provides the details of the assessment on Mongolia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. It describes the … Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EGPRS), which presents main policy directions of the government with a focus on … economic growth acceleration and poverty reduction efforts. It describes the transition period of Mongolia, demographic trends …
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In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor’s work effort. The literature, however,...
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The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …
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impact of the global financial crisis on Djibouti has been limited. The financial system has not been affected by the global …
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This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) on Djibouti explains past strategies and the PRSP formulation process … must be one of the cornerstones of the poverty reduction strategy. Being a new country with few human resources, Djibouti …. Djibouti suffers from a gross lack of reliable health statistics. Available information gives only a fragmented picture of the …
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The most important challenge faced by the Djibouti authorities is to achieve high rates of economic growth in order to … create employment opportunities for a rapidly increasing labor force and to alleviate rising poverty. In this paper …
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The modern economy of the Republic of Djibouti is based on rents directly or indirectly originating from the … international port of Djibouti and from the country’s strategic position. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper discusses that the … the activities of the Port of Djibouti. The informal economy constitutes a major proportion of the economic activities of …
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