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Though well-established in the commercial sector, the use of market-based price risk management is not widespread in the public sector, particularly by sovereigns. Recent volatility in energy and food prices, however, has awakened the interest of some governments to learn more about how they can...
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The reform, a key component of a larger economic recovery and adjustment operation, and of the agricultural sector strategy, focused on the liberalization of coffee and cocoa prices, their primary marketing and export, all previously regulated by a marketing board. The main objectives of the...
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The five main lessons for Southern Africa from our review of the experiencewith cross-border power trading in other regions of the work are that: Security of supply concerns need to be explicitly addressed and understood by the parties to proposed cross-border transactions. Regional entities...
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impact all traders similarly. Studies by the World Bank, for example, found that men and women traders often face different …- specific associations. This study in Tajikistan explored a range of topics, primarily within the scope of the World Trade … crossings in the country. The work was built upon a similar methodology developed and used in other surveys by the World Bank …
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Tenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 185 economies, Doing Business 2013 measures … overall "ease of doing business", and analyzes reforms to business regulation -- identifying which economies are strengthening … anniversary of the global Doing Business report. Doing Business is a flagship product by the World Bank and IFC that garners …
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countries on their overall ""ease of doing business"", and analyzes reforms to business regulation—identifying which countries … unreasonable costs on businesses. Where business regulation is burdensome and competition limited, success depends more on whom you …
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, including instrumental variable regressions. "--World Bank web site …
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