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Balancing Workers' Protection and Labor Market Flexibility in China
World Bank Group - 2021
Across the world, governments use minimum wages, employment protection legislation, and other labor regulations that … define the legal boundaries of employment to manage potential labor market imperfections. These imperfections include … impacts on the employment and earnings of workers and the productivity and profits of firms. While these regulations have …
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Policy Recommendations on Accelerating Inclusive Employment of Persons with Disabilities in Bangladesh
World Bank Group - 2021
wage employment; social protection; accessibility; and the importance of changing attitudes …
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Western Balkans Regular Economic Report No. 12, Fall 2017 : Job Creation Picks Up
World Bank Group - 2017
This is a semi-annual report series on recent economic developments and economic policies in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia). The report looks at the economic performance and outlook for the Western Balkans region and specific...
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Sri Lanka Development Update, June 2018 : More and Better Jobs for an Upper Middle-Income Country
World Bank Group - 2018
Recent policy measures have contributed to macroeconomic stability. However, with significant risks stemming from both domestic and external fronts, the balance of risks is tilted towards downside. To sustain growth, create more and better jobs and reduce poverty Sri Lanka needs to implement and...
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Growth and Job Creation in Uzbekistan : A In-depth Diagnostic
World Bank Group - 2018
employment. This new analysis was possible by applying the growth decomposition tool to new data disaggregated by sectors of the … economy and new data on constraints to productivity and employment growth generated by the three enterprise surveys conducted …
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Closing the Gap : Gender, Transport, and Employment in Mumbai
World Bank Group - 2021
Mumbai Region of India. It examines how the mobility patterns of men and women differ from each other, how they have evolved …
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Haiti
World Bank Group - 2014
The Country Opinion Survey in Haiti assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Haiti perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private...
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Retail Payment Costs and Savings in Kosovo
World Bank Group - 2022
This report is based on a study of the costs of retail payments in Kosovo, using a methodology (A Practical Guide for Measuring Retail Payment Costs) developed by the World Bank's Payment System Development Group (PSDG), part of the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice. The...
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Innovation in Electronic Payment Adoption : The Case of Small Retailers
World Bank Group - 2016
This report aims to deepen the understanding of barriers to and incentives for the acceptance and use of electronic payments, from the perspective of micro, small and medium retailers (merchants). Developing and accelerating acceptance of electronic payments by these merchants is essential to...
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The Retail Payment Costs and Savings in Albania
World Bank Group - 2018
This report is based on a study of the costs and savings of retail payments in Albania using a methodology (A Practical Guide for Measuring Retail Payment Costs) developed by the World Bank's Payment Systems Development Group, part of the Financial Inclusion, Infrastructure, and Access at the...
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