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Although the rest of the world had waited a long time for China to open up, feelings were mixed when it actually did and began to integrate rapidly with the world economy. With the country’s recent accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly...
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This Selected Issues paper presents an assessment of leveraging oil wealth for development in Kazakhstan. By saving …€™s long- term development strategy. …
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This paper focuses on the Medium-Term Development Program for the Kyrgyz Republic. The aim of this program is to put … the economy of the country into a sustainable vector of development and improve the budget status to prevent social …
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The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) of Grenada outline the issues raised in the Joint Staff Assessment. In the area of poverty diagnostics, a more detailed discussion of poverty based on updated poverty data is provided. The PRSP will describe the links between poverty, growth, and...
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The growth rate of agriculture in Cameroon was estimated at 3.3 percent in 2006, compared with 2.7 percent in 2005. This is owing to increased activity in the food agriculture sector (4.3 percent) and in forestry and logging (4.0 percent). Livestock farming and fisheries, on the one hand, grew...
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China’s transformation into a dynamic private-sector-led economy and its integration into the world economy have been among the most dramatic global economic developments of recent decades. This paper provides an overview of some of the key aspects of recent developments in China’s...
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fostering economic growth and development. This paper provides a selective review of the literature, as well as new empirical … evidence on the relationship between financial development and economic growth for a large cross-section sample of countries …. While the results indicate that the effect of financial development on growth is positive, the size of the effect varies …
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Botswana is typical of the countries that are endowed with abundant natural resources. Although it is commonly accepted that resource-rich economies tend to fail in accelerating growth, Botswana has experienced the most remarkable economic performance in the region. Using the latest...
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