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productivity and competitiveness. The Poland Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is the first ICA piloted in the World Bank …'s Europe and Central region in 2004, adding to the stock of knowledge from the many other country reports prepared worldwide …. The Poland ICA provides benchmark data to assess firm-level performance in other countries in the Europe and Central Asia …
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boost productivity and employment and thereby economic growth and income convergence. To achieve this, the report looks at …
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boost productivity and employment and thereby economic growth and income convergence. To achieve this, the report looks at …
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of the market economy, improved productivity, and enhancement of competitiveness. This report focuses on three critical …
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"Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps … in terms of total factor productivity, although the difference is small. However, women entrepreneurs generate the same …
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This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet …
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"This paper explores endogenous institution formation under a catching-up strategy in developing countries. Since the catching-up strategy is normally against the compartive advantages of the developing countries, it can not be implemented through laissez-faire market mechanisms, and a...
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"The present study uses the GIDD, a CGE-microsimulation model for Global Income Distribution Dynamics, to understand the ex-ante dynamics of global income distribution. Three main robust results emerge. First, under a set of realistic assumptions, there will be a reduction in global income...
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"This paper studies the spatial dimension of growth in Mexico over the past three decades. The literature on regional economic growth shows a decrease in regional dispersion from 1970 to 1985, and a sharp increase afterward coinciding with the trade liberalization of the Mexican economy. Using...
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