materialize. The recession has lasted longer than expected and has set back global development more decisively than at any time …

significant risks. Iraq has recently achieved some important steps towards strengthening its investment climate, but much remains … to be done. An attractive investment climate is integral to economic growth and poverty reduction. A key task of the … government is to balance the interests of society and individual firms. A stronger investment climate does not equate with a more …

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moldova faced the deepest and most prolonged recession among transition … focuses on the period of recession that followed the Russian crisis and the subsequent recovery. It draws mainly on the …

Developing East Asia is battling the forces of global recession. The impact of the crisis in the advanced countries was … triggering widespread factory closures, rising unemployment, and lower real wages, with disproportionate effects on the poor and …

After the double-dip recession, as a group the six South East European countries (SEE6)- Albania, Bosnia and … Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia-are now making a fragile recovery. Last year the recession in the … Eurozone had adverse impact on external demand and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in SEE6 and the severe winter and a summer …

private sector driven growth and investment reform agenda needs to be put in place immediately which can help Jordan manage …