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uncertainty, and by improvements in infrastructure that raise the returns to private investment. …
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intra-regional financial flows and mobilize resources from the aging savers in industrialized Asia to finance infrastructure … emerging Asia. Finally, financial deepening could help ease the potential overheating from scaling up infrastructure investment … demographics and infrastructure investment needs. Enhancing financial innovation and integration in the region could facilitate …
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Shocks to aggregate activity in China have a significant and persistent short-run impact on the price of oil and some base metals. In contrast, shocks to apparent commodity-specific consumption (in part reflecting inventory demand) have no effect on commodity prices. China’s impact on...
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This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in …
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Côte d’Ivoire's government decided on the National Development Plan to give a new impetus to its development policy. This new strategy is based on an ambitious and realistic recovery and development program centered on private and public investment. The institutional monitoring framework for...
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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 modern economy of the Republic of Djibouti is based on rents directly or indirectly originating from the international port of Djibouti and from the country’s strategic position. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper discusses that the growth recorded over the last five years is...
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, and services; as well as the scaling-up of infrastructure investment. Nonetheless, important impediments to broad …-based growth remain, including large infrastructure gaps, insufficient energy supply, and limited access to safe water and …
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This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for the Kingdom of Lesotho presents a determined plan in pursuance of high and sustainable equity-based economic growth. It contains medium-term objectives and strategies to address the major challenges facing the country. These challenges include employment...
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