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An effective and equitable social protection system can help Kosovo to promote human capital, foster productivity, and reduce poverty. Since its independence in 2008, the country has made considerable socioeconomic progress, benefiting from the support of the international community and its own...
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For a small and landlocked country like North Macedonia, trade integration is particularly important to sustain the … the post-pandemic recovery period. Trade integration has contributed to North Macedonia's rise to the status of a middle … limits the role of trade in North Macedonia's growth model. Also, trade openness in services has been weaker than for …
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The international community is committed to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. Providing more effective aid and increasing its impact on development is one important contribution to this end. This report takes stock of progress made...
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"This paper considers approaches towards improving the predictability of aid to low income countries, with a special focus on budget support. In order to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, the donor community is increasing aid flows while pushing for more coordination...
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The Thailand Country Development Partnership for Social Protection (CDP-SP) is a collaborative program of policy development and technical assistance between the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection and the Bank and was launched in July 2001. CDP-SP operates in three key policy areas: labor...
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"This paper relies on a simple framework to understand the gender wage gap in Macedonia, and simulates how the gender … Macedonia could contribute to decrease the gender wage gap by up to 23 percent. Nevertheless, in order to significantly improve …
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structural model estimated on quarterly data for Macedonia and Slovakia over 1995-2007. The success of macroeconomic … structural shocks. By benchmarking the estimated economic rigidities and structural shocks faced by Macedonia to those faced by … Slovakia, the authors find that Macedonia has relatively weaker transmission mechanisms of monetary policy, higher output …
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This country note for Macedonia is part of a series of country briefs that summarize information relevant to climate … regional program on reducing vulnerability to climate change in ECA agricultural systems. This note for Macedonia was shared …
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partially mitigate the impact of the crisis on Macedonia. Section B looks at poverty and inequality issues. Section C examines … Macedonia's past growth in terms of total factor productivity analysis, drawing the connection with labor and capital, and … within these broad factors, human capital and infrastructure. It also compares Macedonia's growth to a successful regional …
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