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This note presents estimates of potential growth and the output gap in Latvia. The estimates suggest that the output has marked below potential in the early 2000s but the output gap becomes positive and large after EU accession. With unemployment still well above its natural level, the output...
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, goods market efficiency, higher education, and innovation would permanently boost productivity growth by a total of 1 …
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This paper on Selected Issues was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with the member country. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed on October 23, 2012. The views expressed in this...
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the best performance, whereas promotion of employment still has challenges and constraints to overcome in fulfilling its …
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market wages above fallback incomes to attract individuals to the labor force. For that, measures to improve education and … enough to raise employment rates, and lackluster real earnings along with still-rampant labor market informality suggest that … most of the new jobs are of low quality. Low real wages and low labor force participation suggest the need of raising …
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This Joint Staff Advisory Note focuses on the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP) for Sudan. I-PRSP provides a useful stock taking of the socioeconomic situation in Sudan and offers a good basis for the design and monitoring of growth and poverty reduction policies. It is the first...
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This paper focuses on Haiti’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and 2014–2016 Three-Year Investment Program. The Haiti Strategic Development Plan presents the new framework for the planning, programming, and management of Haitian development, the vision and the strategic guidelines...
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This paper examines the Islamic Republic of Mauritania’s adoption of its third Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) action plan, covering the medium term (2011–2015). Poverty reduction as the ultimate objective of all of the country’s economic social and institutional...
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population, have made possible fast-track and cost-effective implementation and increased demand for accountability, in education …
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