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efficiency of the logistics sector can help countries gain competitiveness in international export markets, which can translate …-2015 period; (v) upgrading the entire EWH is estimated to generate additional export revenues between USD 776 million and USD 1 …
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This note discusses about six farmer innovators from Ethiopia that took part in the recent international workshop on Promoting Local Innovation (PROLINNOVA), which was held in March 2004 at the Furra Institute of Development Studies in Yirgalem, Southern Ethiopia. Over 60 participants from...
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Chile is an economy rich in natural resources and their efficient exploitation has proved the right strategy to grow successfully over the last few decades. More recently, in the broader context of increasing globalization and competitive pressures, it has chosen as its main development driver...
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"The authors study the effect of reorganization costs on the efficiency of bankruptcy laws. They develop a simple model … that predicts that in a regime with high costs, the law fails to achieve the efficient outcome of liquidating unviable … lowering reorganization costs, the reform improved the selection of viable firms into reorganization. In this sense, the new …
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"Greece and Italy initiated efforts to improve public debt management and develop their domestic debt markets … fiscal deficits, high levels of interest rates and inflation, and serious policy credibility problems impeded the use of long … inflation. When reliance on captive sources of finance was substantially reduced and policy credibility was established, both …
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logistics sector in Greece and to develop policy recommendations. The World Bank is carrying out the project at the request of … a technical assistance package provided by the World Bank Group to the Government of Greece on enhancing the business … environment and trade logistics. The package has been facilitated by the Task Force for Greece (TFGR, an arm of the European …
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All children should be able to read by age 10. Reading is a gateway for learning as the child progresses through school - and conversely, an inability to read constrains opportunities for further learning. Reading proficiency is also critical for foundational learning in other subjects. In low-...
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"Oil and mineral revenues raise national savings and hence facilitate investment, capital accumulation, and sustained growth; thus, there are benefits of owning large natural resources. There can be a significant spillover effect from the oil sector to the non-oil sector particularly if...
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-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path … modeling of these processes in theoretical work, particularly in the search for export booms, should be of a stochastic flavor …
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