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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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The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper discusses socioeconomic development in the Republic of Tajikistan. Although poverty reduction in rural areas is proceeding at a faster pace than in urban areas, poverty continues to be a predominantly rural phenomenon. In addition to improving the gender...
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The report on Thailand’s Observance of Standards and Codes examines Data Module, response by the authorities, and … detailed assessments using the data quality assessment framework. Thailand possesses a well-developed macroeconomic statistical …
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This paper analyzes the dynamic interactions between the precision of information, technological development, and … welfare within an overlapping generations model. More precise information about idiosyncratic production shocks has ambiguous … system. For example, we show that with efficient risk sharing more precise information adversely affects the equilibrium risk …
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This paper presents an Update to the Data Module of the Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) for … indicators recommended in the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) still exist, including the absence of a manufacturing or … industrial production index and labor market indicators. In addition, data on public and publicly guaranteed external debt are …
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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 paper benchmarks the efficiency of public expenditure in the social sectors in the Russian Federation relative to other countries and among the country's regions. It finds that there is substantial room for efficiency gains, particularly in health care and social protection, although less...
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validity of the sticky information model (Mankiw and Reis, 2002) for describing the dynamics of professional growth forecasts …. Instead, the empirical evidence is more in line with implications of "noisy" information models (Woodford, 2002; Sims, 2003 …). Second, we find that information rigidities are more pronounced in emerging economies than advanced economies. Third, there …
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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 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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