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Global Economic Prospects, January 2020 : Slow Growth, Policy Challenges
World Bank Group - 2020
Global growth is projected to be slightly faster in 2020 than the post-crisis low registered last year. While growth could be stronger if reduced trade tensions lead to a sustained reduction in uncertainty, the balance of risks to the outlook is to the downside. Growth in emerging market and...
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Kenya Economic Update, October 2019 : Securing Future Growth - Policies to Support Kenya's Digital Transformation
World Bank Group - 2019
Kenya continues to experience steady economic growth, with real GDP expanding on average by about 5.6 percent over the last five years (2014-2018). In 2019, however, economic activity has softened primarily due to lower agricultural output and weak private sector investment. As a result, the...
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Serbia's New Growth Agenda : Investment for Growth
World Bank Group - 2020
Because of its difficult starting position in transitioning to a market economy, so far macroeconomic policy in Serbia has mainly been concerned with achieving stability. At the start of its transition in 2001, Serbia was practically bankrupt, burdened with old overdue debt and huge arrears in...
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Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies : Results from the 2017 International Comparison Program
World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2020
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission. It produces comparable price and volume measures of gross domestic product (GDP) and its expenditure aggregates across...
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Islamic Trade Finance : An Opportunity for Malaysia
World Bank Group - 2021
Islamic trade finance (ITF) offers a meaningful opportunity for Malaysia. ITF can play a substantial role to support … finance industry in which Malaysia is an established leader. This report explores the ITF opportunity by considering: (1) the … ahead in expanding ITF; and (4) opportunities for expanding ITF in Malaysia. The report includes (5) a set of …
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Islamic Finance and the Development of Malaysia's Halal Economy
World Bank Group - 2022
The halal economy (HE) plays an important role in Malaysia's economic growth, contributing 7.5 percent to the Gross … Domestic Product (GDP) as of 2020. Under the Twelfth Malaysia Plan, 2021-2025 (12MP), one of the key strategies to boost … Malaysia's economic growth is enhancing the competitiveness of the halal industry to capture a more significant share of the …
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Islamic Finance and the Development of Malaysia's Halal Economy
World Bank Group - 2022
The halal economy (HE) plays an important role in Malaysia's economic growth, contributing 7.5 percent to the Gross … Domestic Product (GDP) as of 2020. Under the Twelfth Malaysia Plan, 2021-2025 (12MP), one of the key strategies to boost … Malaysia's economic growth is enhancing the competitiveness of the halal industry to capture a more significant share of the …
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Liberia
World Bank Group - 2014
The Country Opinion Survey in Liberia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Liberia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral and bilateral agencies, media, academia, the...
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Pathways for peace : inclusive approaches to preventing violent conflict
World Bank Group - 2018
Introduction. Prevention of violent conflict works and is cost-effective ; Why, then, is there so little belief in the prevention of violent conflict? ; What is the prevention of violent conflict? ; Can prevention of violent conflict be done differently? ; The importance of agency to prevention...
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Convergence : Five Critical Steps toward Integrating Lagging and Leading Areas in the Middle East and North Africa
World Bank Group - 2020
Policy makers across the Middle East and North Africa have for many years articulated plans to integrate their people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring communities together and narrow economic gaps, governments have made large capital investments in transport corridors and "new...
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