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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 attempts to offer specific inputs to the debate on local content promotion in the oil industry, using the specific case of São Tomé and Príncipe as point of reference. Our approach emphasizes inter-sectoral linkages and institutional pre-conditions for local content promotion....
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This Selected Issues paper on Algeria reports that the authorities have relied on an expansionary fiscal stance to stimulate growth and employment, but structural reforms have virtually stalled. Although the economy has recorded increasing growth, the nonhydrocarbon sector remains small and...
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This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Nigeria highlights the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS). NEEDS gives special support to agriculture, industry, small and medium-scale enterprises, and oil and gas. Under the plan, the government will seek long-term capital...
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This Selected Issues paper on Azerbaijan Republic reports that the government has made substantial progress in dealing with energy-related subsidies. The domestic market for oil products has been tightly regulated by the government since Azerbaijan gained independence. Azerbaijan is largely...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes the energy sector and labor market developments in Trinidad and Tobago. It discusses monetary and exchange rate policy and describes the institutional setting and economic structure within which monetary and exchange rate policy is conducted. The framework...
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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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