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productivity angle.In looking at a set of high-growth economies of the past, the Growth Report 2008 identified common … total factor productivity to growth is on a declining path.The structural shift of the Ghanaian economy into services and … marginally contributes to labor productivity growth.Second, concentration of economic activity in natural resources increase …
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domestic economy, increasing openness, and promoting an eco-system for firm innovation in order can boost productivity …
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The latest economic brief highlights that Zambia's rising macroeconomic imbalances, high debt and associated costs of debt service are crowding out private sector growth. The economy is expected to expand by 3.3 percent in 2018 in 2018 compared to 3.4 percent in 2017. Agricultures offers Zambia...
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Sao Tome and Principe (STP), a small island nation of 215,000 people in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Central Africa, is in many ways a country of great untapped wealth. One of Africa's least known countries, its striking volcanic landscape is home to virgin rainforests with rich...
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Systematic Country Diagnostics (SCDs) analyze the most critical constraints and opportunities to ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. The first SCD for Egypt was published in 2015. A lot has happened since then, so this SCD Update takes advantage of a...
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combined with low productivity growth has translated into limited gains in income per capita. Following its transition from low …, lifting labor productivity and creating quality jobs for its young labor force, including women. While Benin's economy has …
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This country economic memorandum aims to support Niger's efforts to walk on a path conducive to a resilient and sustainable economic growth. It does so by attempting to answer the following five questions, each of which constitutes a separate chapter: (i) what were the salient structural...
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and declining productivity; low quality and weak export linkages; and high foreign direct investment (FDI) but low … opportunity to build a new and stronger growth path-by enabling productivity of firms and workers, diversifying exports, and …
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a decade of disappointing outcomes. A steep and widespread productivity growth slowdown has been underway in these … implement measures to rebuild macroeconomic policy space and to undertake reforms to rekindle productivity growth. These efforts …
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