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This study discusses options how to increase the Dominican Republic tax revenue and attempts to identify priority areas for efficiency-enhancing reforms. A 2016 World Bank report on Dominican fiscal policy found that the country's tax expenditures were poorly targeted and regressively...
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This country report assesses the impact of tobacco tax policy increases on prices, consumption, and fiscal revenue. The scientific evidence accumulated over the past five decades is clear: tobacco kills. Smokers who begin early in adult life and do not stop smoking face a three-fold higher risk...
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This report is part of the Indonesia Tobacco Employment Studies implemented by the World Bank and the American Cancer Society. The findings from this report complement the findings from three closely-related reports focusing on specific segments of tobacco sector employment in Indonesia: tobacco...
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This is the eleventh edition of the Kenya Economic Update. The special focus of this update examines the structural … problems in Kenya's business environment, which compares poorly to regional neighbors' on several manufacturing …-relevant dimensions. The report has four main messages: First, Kenya begins 2015 in a sound economic position. After growing an estimated …
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Kenyan water sector by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank’s Water Global Practice. Kenya’s new … Constitution (Constitution of Kenya 2010) came into effect in 2013, declaring water supply and sanitation services a basic right …
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-country pilot carried out in Ghana, Honduras, Kenya, and Nigeria. Section 1 of the paper provides the general background within …
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structured around the key themes that are relevant to Kenya's disclosure environment …
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and gradually return to growth of above 5 percent. The near-term economic outlook for Kenya, as elsewhere, remains …
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least ten of the other SDGs. This assessment of Kenya's ID system was undertaken under the umbrella of the World Bank … also financing the Kenya Transparency and Communications Infrastructure (KTCIP) project to scale up digital inclusion and e … Kenya May 18-28. Its broad objective was to better understand the nature and capabilities of Kenya's ID system, its role in …
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