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India’s real GDP growth slipped substantially after the North Atlantic financial crisis. Return to a sustained high … growth trajectory is feasible but it will need much more focused attention to the revival of manufacturing and to the … acceleration of investment in transport and infrastructure. The immediate priority is to achieve the kind of fiscal quality and low …
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in energy and infrastructure in scenarios with varying degrees of debt finance and with different types of supporting … growth, real wages and the supply of public services. Senegal does not need, however, to undertake such difficult fiscal … non-energy infrastructure. These programs lead to much higher real wages and real GDP while keeping public debt …
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This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in … accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were … investment spending and growth and only in the same year, as lagged impacts are not significant. Furthermore, there is little …
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-based growth remain, including large infrastructure gaps, insufficient energy supply, and limited access to safe water and … stabilization over the last five years. Real GDP growth averaged some 7 percent, driven by output expansion in agriculture, mining …, and services; as well as the scaling-up of infrastructure investment. Nonetheless, important impediments to broad …
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Benin’s program furthers the objectives elaborated in the previous report. It is the result of a broad participative process that engaged all levels of government, the private sector, civil society, and donor partners. Executive Directors commend the program as it provides an adequate...
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This Selected Issues Paper focuses on economic condition, energy subsidies, and oil prices in Jordan. Energy price subsidies pose a serious fiscal risk in the present context of increasing and volatile international prices. The macroeconomic situation in Jordan is closely tied to that of other...
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performance of policies, the political and institutional environment, and the constraints weighing on its growth as well as the … challenges to be addressed. The shortage of basic infrastructure, especially in the rural areas, is due to elevated costs and low … investments. This is compounded by the high cost of individual sanitation infrastructure, the poverty of households, and the …
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government started the process of sociopolitical normalization, and quickly put in place an economic recovery program. Growth is …
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. Macroeconomic policies will continue to aim at overcoming infrastructure bottlenecks while mitigating the impact of external shocks …
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Mali’s territorial integrity is threatened, questioning its internal capacity to face challenges and especially to ensure the physical safety of goods and individuals. The government is committed to implement all measures to overcome this situation. More specifically, it will increase...
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