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, and supporting investment. On the labor supply side, this means investing in people and supporting workers' transition to …
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and declining productivity; low quality and weak export linkages; and high foreign direct investment (FDI) but low … domestic investment. Just when past success was fueling high ambitions for future growth-to become upper middle income by 2030 … harnessing domestic investment. But an ambitious reform agenda is needed-one that focuses on improving capabilities …
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Four mutually supportive strategic pillars and related policy priorities would help Kazakhstan continue the structural transformation that stalled during the oil booms, in order to eliminate poverty and build a large and secure middle class: 1. economic management for diversification, to...
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grows more quickly, the focus should be on increasing investment-both private and public …
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. Non-extractive GDP growth reached 3.7 percent as investment growth accelerated, supported by a marked recovery in public … investment, and leading to a surge in imports. Private consumption remained dynamic, stimulated by growing public sector wages …. Continuing to strengthen data systems would support investment and public policymaking. In 2023 and 2024, digitalization efforts …
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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 Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), which consists of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, is one of the oldest regional groupings in Africa. The main objectives for achieving this are: (i) the creation of a...
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Slavonia's economy is now amongst the poorest in the European Union (EU) and has been growing more slowly than comparable regions. Some Polish and Romanian counties were less advanced until 2013 but have now overtaken Slavonia. Achieving a turnaround is difficult: only 9 percent of lagging...
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Latin America and the Caribbean suffered the largest death toll from Covid?19 across developing regions and the sharpest decline in economic activity. With fewer school days and lower employment rates, with higher public debt and more firms under stress, the effects could be long?lasting. The...
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Energy demand in Arab countries continues to grow at a higher rate than economic growth. Meeting national electricity demand and exploiting their significant renewable energy resources (particularly, solar and wind) in a sustainable manner is a common challenge across all Arab countries. A...
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