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All countries across South Asia, faced with the rising risks of COVID-19 infection rates, implemented severe economic lockdowns in early 2020 with varying frequencies and time periods. While the exact nature and duration of these lockdowns varied across countries in the South Asia Region (SAR),...
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Jordan's economy achieved a relatively strong rebound, registering 2.2 percent growth in 2021. The nascent recovery was led by a broad-based expansion of the services and industrial sectors, while the rebound in the travel and tourism also exceeded expectations. This robust economic recovery was...
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employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective … of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how to enhance poverty reduction through increased employment and …
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"The authors use a panel of manufacturing firms to analyze the adjustment process in capital blue collar and white … collar employment in Uruguay during a period of trade liberalization when average tariff protection fell from 43 to 14 …. This suggests that trade protection may in fact destroy rather than create jobs within industries, as firms in highly …
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to labor and employment-has generated a number of stylized facts, but many open questions remain. This paper surveys the … opportunities can have a major impact in creating more productive and higher paying jobs, this literature tends to take employment … wage impacts within sectors. This reflects a pattern of expansion of more productive firms-especially export-oriented or …
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