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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...
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through increased trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) is one key means available in the short to medium term to policy … merits of trade and FDI and the integrity of the private sector in light of "crony capitalism," where the benefits of past … greater economic integration and regulatory convergence with the most advanced economies. To further enhance trade and FDI and …
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through increased trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) is one key means available in the short to medium term to policy … merits of trade and FDI and the integrity of the private sector in light of "crony capitalism," where the benefits of past … greater economic integration and regulatory convergence with the most advanced economies. To further enhance trade and FDI and …
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convergence in Romania. Generous Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and other financial inflows lifted consumer demand, built up key …
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Lithuania's long-term economic strategy aims at building the foundations for achieving rapid convergence with Western European countries. The medium-term objective of the economic policy is to meet the economic criteria for accession and to get ready for membership in the European and Monetary...
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Global growth slowed markedly in H1 2022. This was due to COVID-19 resurgences at the turn of the year; protracted supply disruptions; reduced macroeconomic support; and substantial negative spillovers from the war in Ukraine. The conflict, which has sparked the largest commodity price shock in...
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"The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those of large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of the brain drain on North-South trade-related technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in small and large...
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Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World examines the state of technology in developing countries and the pace with which it has advanced since the early 1990s. It reveals both encouraging and cautionary trends. On the one hand, the pace of technological...
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