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Residential Electricity Subsidies in Pakistan : Targeting, Welfare Impacts, and Options for Reform

World Bank Group - 2017

This report examines the system of residential electricity subsidies in Pakistan, and explores how it can be improved to better assist households within the existing political and budgetary constraints. The report is multi-disciplinary in nature, drawing on specially commissioned analysis of...

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Iraq Economic Monitor, Spring 2022 : Harnessing the Oil Windfall for Sustainable Growth

World Bank Group - 2022

Iraq's economy is gradually emerging from the deep recession caused by the pandemic and the plunge in oil prices in 2020. Higher oil revenues pushed Iraq's overall fiscal and external balances into a surplus in 2021. The turnaround in oil markets has significantly improved Iraq's economic...

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Cambodia Economic Update - Weathering the Oil Price Shock : Special Focus - Post-Pandemic Supply Chain Disruptions; Strategies to Reduce Logistics Costs

World Bank Group - 2022

Cambodia is now weathering an oil price shock, just as the economy had started to recover amid a rollback of Coronavirus (COVID-19)-related restrictions. Negative impacts of the oil price shock are amplified by Cambodia's already large external imbalances. Rising food and energy prices have...

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Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration : Capturing Lessons and Experience from Japan with a Focus on Kyoto

World Bank Group - 2018

The World Bank Group (WBG) has long recognized that the restoration and preservationof cultural heritage, urban … from the development experience of Kyoto City, the imperial capital of Japan for more than a thousand years and home to 14 … well conserved UNESCO World Heritage sites and many historic districts …

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Iraq Economic Monitor, Spring 2021 : Seizing the Opportunity for Reforms and Managing Volatility

World Bank Group - 2021

Recognizing the severity of the crisis, the GoI devised a national reform plan (the white paper) that sets out a old blueprint of structural reforms to achieve sustainable medium-term growth through economic diversification and boosting private sector growth and private sector job creation. The...

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Montenegro Achieving Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Amidst High Volatility : Systematic Country Diagnostic

World Bank Group - 2016

This Systematic County Diagnostics is organized into six parts. The first part presents a brief overview of the country's recent socio-political and economic context. The second part examines the links between poverty, income distribution and economic growth, through the labor market, against...

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Indonesia Economic Quarterly, June 2010 : Continuity Amidst Volatility

World Bank Group - 2010

. Further large flows in March and April into liquid Indonesian financial assets reversed during the volatility in global … volatility in global financial conditions and uncertain developed economy outlook has increased the near term downside risks to …

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