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A competitive city is a city that successfully facilitates its firms and industries to create jobs, raise productivity, and increase the incomes of citizens over time. Worldwide, improving the competitiveness of cities is a pathway to eliminating extreme poverty and to promoting shared...
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The Madagascar Urbanization Review aims to: - Contribute to the 2019 National Policy for Urban Development (Politique National de Developpement Urbain), the main policy document outlining the priorities for cities in Madagascar. - Serve as a diagnostic tool to identify the key barriers to...
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The objective of this report is to inform the government's policies and strategies on urbanization as a driver of economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction. Note two examines internal migration in Rwanda, which is a recent phenomenon and remains fairly limited, with less than 10...
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As Malaysia continues to strive toward high-income status, accelerating productivity growth has become the country's central economic policy challenge. Productivity growth has become increasingly important as the country's traditional economic engines have slowed. Declining oil and gas output,...
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The special topic of this edition of the Macroeconomic Monitoring report focuses on the TC administration's 'public' financial support to the agriculture sector. Due to the Turkish lira depreciation, the recent adverse climate conditions, and exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis, the agriculture...
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progress has been achieved regarding increasing opportunities for women and men in Turkey and where further policy action is … Women in Turkey. The Turkish Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS) collected by the Ministry of Development (MoD) and … Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, and the Research on Family Structure in Turkey (TAYA) by MoFSP were also …
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Over the last decade, turkey has initiated several regulatory and institutional reforms to better mitigate and reduce … produce housing for low-income groups in Turkey, and with the Mass Housing Law No. 2985 (1984), they aimed to accelerate the … production in Turkey. In the 2000s, the legal concept of "urban transformation" emerged; and it started to be mentioned together …
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The Country Opinion Survey in Turkey assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in Turkey perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments …, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Turkey on 1) their views regarding the …
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- enabled Turkey to recover from its shock of 2016, with growth accelerating to 7.4 percent in 2017. The outcome of supply … orderly adjustment is important for productivity and potential output. Turkey has been prone to large economic swings in the …
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