Showing 1 - 10 of 277
"In defiance of its unimpressive track in structural reforms and relatively low foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, Romanian exports have experienced surprisingly strong performance in both EU and non-EU markets since 2000 after a four-year period of flat growth. While the first phase of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522884
Improving the investment climate is a key pillar of the World Bank's private sector development strategy. Without a good investment climate, firms and entrepreneurs of all types-from farmers to micro-enterprises to local manufacturing concerns and multinationals-have few opportunities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550676
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393337
The book describes why expanding trade, and investment is vital for the Middle East and North Africa region. The greatest economic challenge is to create enough jobs for its rapidly growing labor force, which is increasingly young, and educated, to ward off threats to social, and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563753
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523508
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245459
This report reviews the status of Maghreb countries' economic integration with the world, with the Arab world, and … within the Maghreb itself. It focuses on trade in goods and services, labor and capital flows, financial integration and …. The focus on trade liberalization with the European Union (EU) provides an opportunity for individual Maghreb countries to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247212
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000755059
In seeking to reach upper middle-income status by 2030 and high-income status by 2045, Vietnam aspires to become a modern and industrialized nation with a higher quality of life for its citizens. After this brief introduction, the following section provides a background on the trends in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015198214
The objectives of the current report are to update the status of the road network and recent developments in connectivity, examine some major socioeconomic benefits that have accrued from greater connectivity, review how the government has been spending available resources on road sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014579643