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This Selected Issues paper presents an assessment of leveraging oil wealth for development in Kazakhstan. By saving … most of the tax revenues collected from the oil sector in an off-budget oil fund Kazakhstan has been relatively successful … includes public enterprises in the oil and gas industry, is systemic in Kazakhstan. During the crisis the quasifiscal sector …
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architecture and promoting a business environment unencumbered by the state remain key challenges for Kazakhstan to become a …
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developing Kazakhstan into a leading emerging market economy requires concerted efforts to strengthen the policy architecture. It …
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This paper analyzes the monetary policy framework in Kazakhstan. The authorities have been successful in containing …
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This paper discusses key findings of the 2005 Status Report on Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) on Niger. The report is based on an assessment of economic and financial performance and sectoral policy and strategy implementation in 2005. The findings reveal that implementation of the...
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This strategic paper discusses Ethiopia’s growth and transformation plan (GTP) for the periods 2010/2011 and 2014/2015. The basis for the GTP has been the policy matrix, which is the benchmark placed in the government's existing Welfare Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System since 1996....
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This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment-specific technical change, associated with...
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This paper examines the role of financial development and financial structure in explaining cross-country diffusion of information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990-2003, the paper finds that credit and stock market...
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