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The district of Cox's Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh, is an instructive context to understand how long-standing and newer growth opportunities and constraints manifest at the local level, remote from Bangladesh's major growth poles of Dhaka and Chittagong. Potentially exacerbating Cox's...
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India has achieved much in the last 25 years. Since the early 1990s, when reforms began, growthrates have been higher … the last few quarters has generated worried commentaries about India's growth potential. The questions being raised are …" for India's growth potential? What sets of policies, structural or cyclical, might be needed to revive growth? In this …
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The overall objective of the Maputo Urban Poverty and Inclusive Growth Study is to inform the municipal governments of Maputo and Matola in the Greater Maputo Area (GMA) on how to better target and finance urban poverty reduction programs by building critical knowledge on urban poverty and...
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seeks to inform strategic dialogue between the government of India and the World Bank Group toward investments in …
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The objective of this report is to present a snapshot of the welfare landscape in Djibouti that will help stakeholders understand poverty's determinants. Exploiting data from the 2017 household expenditure survey, as well as administrative and geospatial data, it provides a detailed analysis of...
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The Republic of Congo is the third-largest crude oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa after Nigeria and Angola and is heavily dependent on oil production and oil exports. With a population of 5.5 million, Congo is a lower middle-income economy, endowed with abundant natural resources. The economy...
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The Gambia's economy continued to recover in 2022, albeit at a subdued pace in a sluggish global economic environment. Real GDP increased by 4.3 percent (1.8 percent in per capita terms) in 2022, unchanged from 2021, when economic growth was recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic following a...
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China's recovery has broadened as economic activity has continued to normalize. Economic growth in China is projected … returns to trend growth. As China's recovery firms up, macroeconomic policies are expected to shift from accommodative to more … strength of the recovery in China and the rest of the world. Rising financial vulnerabilities, together with subdued …
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Following a strong rebound in the first half of 2021, economic activity cooled rapidly in the latter half of the year. The slowdown was partly policy induced, reflecting significant fiscal tightening and regulatory curbs on the financial and real estate sectors, while recurring COVID-19...
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Gross domestic product (GDP) growth in China has remained strong in 2017, exceeding market expectations. Supported by … supporting economic activity in China in 2017. Net exports contributed positively to growth for three consecutive quarters … implementation of capital controls and greater domestic market confidence, capital outflows from China declined to 47 billion US …
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