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"Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...
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This report on managing government finances for growth and poverty reduction in Lesotho is centered on three areas of analysis: (i) macroeconomic and fiscal performance and prospects; (ii) inter and intra-sectoral allocation of resources; and (iii) public expenditure and financial management. A...
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The Public Expenditure Review (PER) has provided a basis for analysis and action under the Public Sector Capacity Building Program(PRECASP), one of components is related to the improvement of public finance management and is expected to support the implementation of the measures proposed in this...
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commercial and investment climate factors that may affect enterprises' actual or perceived costs and risks. Both water and …
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"Murphy and Musalem conduct an empirical study of the effect of the accumulation of pension fund financial assets on national saving using a panel of 43 industrial and developing countries. The authors find evidence suggesting that the accumulation of pension fund financial assets might increase...
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Investment commitments to new infrastructure projects with private participation (PPI projects) reaching closure in … investment decline. If those projects were excluded, investment would have grown 17 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared … with the same quarter in 2009. New PPI activity was concentrated in India, which accounted for more than half of investment …
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January 2008 to March 2010). The findings of the survey show that investment growth in PPI projects continues to be … concentrated in the largest developing economies, particularly India. The remaining developing countries saw some investment … trend of declining investment in these countries. …
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The aim of this discussion paper is to ascertain the government of Lao's (GoL) current practices in negotiating, awarding, and managing land concessions; enhance GoL understanding and commitments to develop national capacities targeting improved land management, that will generate revenues for...
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