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"Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...
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"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....
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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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"The authors describe the main trends of Brazil's fiscal policy during the past decade and analyze (1) the ability to … Brazil. But the relationship is nonlinear: the impact of the primary balance on spreads is amplified as the debt ratio … disappointing growth performance in Brazil during the past decade. "--World Bank web site …
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structured to move from a general description of Brazil's transportation sector to more specific analyses and simulations of … individual and concerted changes. The first chapter sets the stage by providing a summary discussion of Brazil's transportation …
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This country note briefly summarizes information relevant to both climate change and agriculture in Brazil, with focus … on policy developments (including action plans and programs) and institutional make-up. In Brazil, the 5th largest … forestry) is significant and not yet sufficiently explored. Brazil currently counts with 30 Clean Development Mechanism (CDM …
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