Showing 1 - 10 of 34
become a World Bank Group priority, with efforts being deployed across all Bank Group institutions, under the context of the …, guarantees, and disaster risk management products commensurate with project pipeline development (World Bank Group); and (iii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497453
Strong cyclical dynamics, together with an easing of macroeconomic policies in the United States and elsewhere, have boosted large parts of the global economy, into the initial phase of a recovery in 2002. Nonetheless, the global recovery is fragile, because investment spending is insufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563945
-carbon private sector investments. The World Bank has developed this discussion paper in response to the government of South Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012521846
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000755059
The book describes why expanding trade, and investment is vital for the Middle East and North Africa region. The greatest economic challenge is to create enough jobs for its rapidly growing labor force, which is increasingly young, and educated, to ward off threats to social, and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563753
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523508
Due to its recognized benefits, most countries today regardless of their level of development compete for and dedicate significant resources to attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Capturing the full positive spillovers of FDI is a long-term process and requires regulatory certainty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646792
This paper presents a bird's eye overview of the investment policy and promotion (IPP) logical framework developed by the trade and competitiveness global practice of the WBG to address the challenge of how countries can use foreign direct investment (FDI) to advance their economic development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247059
"Taking price changes from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade, the authors use a small open … results with the impact of Russian accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on income distribution and the poor. The … the rest of the world. Foremost among the own reforms is liberalization of barriers against FDI in business services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522475