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International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from...
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The themes of the 2006 Global Economic Prospects (GEP) are international remittances and migration, their economic consequences, and how policies can increase their role in reducing poverty. The GEP explores the gains and losses from international migration from the perspective of developing...
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Strong cyclical dynamics, together with an easing of macroeconomic policies in the United States and elsewhere, have boosted large parts of the global economy, into the initial phase of a recovery in 2002. Nonetheless, the global recovery is fragile, because investment spending is insufficient...
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The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) assess the conduciveness of a country's policy and …
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With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The …
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The Poverty and Social Impact Assessment (PSIA) analyzes the impact of the tax reform, which came into effect in July 2007, on tax incidence and poverty in Uruguay. The essence of the reform is the introduction of a dual personal income tax, which taxes labor income at progressive rates and...
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statistical methods and the demand for evaluations that can measure such development results are increasing. The World Bank Group …, quality, and influence of World Bank and IFC impact evaluations. IEG finds that the World Bank Group portfolio of impact … been improving. Most World Bank impact evaluations meet either medium or high quality standards, and about half of IFC …
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affects impacts. "--World Bank web site …
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