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This Report discusses the challenge of budget financing of core structural reforms, within a broader framework of fiscal management reforms in Russia. It argues that explicit financing of structural reforms is fully justifiable because these are the investments in the institutional...
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This economic report records the economic activities of Armenia for the year 2013. A steep decline in construction caused economic growth to weaken to 0.6 percent in the second quarter of 2013 (year-on-year) from 7.5 percent in the first quarter and 7.2 percent in 2012 as a whole. Developments...
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diminished the crisis' impact on unemployment, and poverty, compared to other countries in the region, this ability to moderate … public sector social programs, and institutional capacity, envisaging coherent poverty support programs in a timely manner …, while speeding fiscal stimulus effects, and, monitoring poverty through reliable information, to ensure cost …
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living in absolute poverty, who have benefitted too little from past progress. This report examines some of the difficulties …
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option contributing to energy security, sustainable forest management, and poverty alleviation strategies. The largely … economy of the charcoal sector and on the potential poverty and social impacts of a sustainability-oriented reform agenda …
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generate the growth and market development needed to combat poverty, improve standards of living, and lay the foundation for a …
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Iran's economic performance in the last two decades has been very disappointing. This is highlighted by the fact that per capita GDP was 16 percent lower in 1998 than in 1979. However, the most important single reason for this poor performance was not any domestic economic policy, but the long...
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the pandemic and sustained progress in poverty reduction and gender equality in The Gambia. It leverages a diverse set of … poverty reduction. The report discusses the recent increase in poverty in The Gambia due to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as …The Poverty and Gender Assessment examines the structural challenges to securing a robust and inclusive recovery from …
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"This paper re-emphasizes the link from structural policies to enhanced macroeconomic stabilization using a small structural model estimated on quarterly data for Macedonia and Slovakia over 1995-2007. The success of macroeconomic stabilization, typically in the hands of monetary policy, is not...
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"This paper analyzes the process of institutional transformation in Bulgaria and assesses the extent to which it has established institutions and policies fostering domestic economic activity and integration into global markets. After a brief review of characteristics and achieved progress in...
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