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ASEAN Integration Monitoring Report
World Bank - 2014
complement the recent mid-term review report by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA, 2012), which has …
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Deepening Linkages Between South Asia and Southeast Asia : Synthesis Report
World Bank - 2022
Although economic linkages between South Asia and Southeast Asia have been strengthened over the past decade … economic links between South Asia and Southeast Asia This report looks at new approaches to strengthen trade and revitalize … economic links between South Asia and Southeast Asia. It documents the emerging trade, investment, and migration trends between …
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Trade blocs
2000
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Georgia : An Integrated Trade Development Strategy
World Bank - 2013
Georgia became a member of WTO in June 2000. It has low import tariffs and no quantitative restrictions. The VAT (20 percent) and excise taxes are equally applied to imports and domestic output. However, the implementation of trade policies is undermined by corruption and poor customs and tax...
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Aid, service delivery, and the Millennium Development Goals in an economy-wide framework
Bourguignon, François - 2008
"In many developing countries, achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will require significant increases in expenditures on social services and in foreign assistance. It will also require careful planning of the sector allocation and sequencing of public spending. Especially...
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Regional and Country Reports of the ASEAN Assessment on the Social Impact of the Global Financial Crisis
World Bank - 2014
The effects of the global economic slowdown on peoples' employment and earnings are at the core of its social impacts, manifested largely through increased job uncertainties and reduced worker earnings in crisis-affected sectors, as opposed to widespread open unemployment. The global economic...
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Minimum Wage Policy : Lessons with a Focus on the ASEAN Region
World Bank - 2014
As developing economies continue to mature and enter the next phase of reforms, labor market issues and key policy instruments such as the minimum wage increasingly come to the forefront. Increased globalization and wider competition compel countries to make labor markets more flexible so as not...
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Advancing Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance in ASEAN Member States : Framework and Options for Implementation, Volume 1. Main report
World Bank - 2013
This report is part of a project being jointly conducted by the World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat, and United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It aims to...
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Advancing Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance in ASEAN Member States : Framework and Options for Implementation, Volume 2. Technical Appendices
World Bank - 2013
This report is part of a project being jointly conducted by the World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat, and United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It aims to...
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ASEAN Vaccine Manufacturing Research Project
World Bank - 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the ASEAN region, which has recorded over 27 million cases of the virus. Despite rapid development of a range of COVID-19 vaccines using innovative technologies, access to these vaccines has been a challenge, with manufacturing mostly...
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