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Limited competition hinders the optimal use of telecommunication services in the Dominican Republic, which lags peer … countries in mobile subscriptions and internet penetration. Despite recent reforms designed to enhance competition, the … Bank Group's Markets and Competition Policy Assessment Toolkit (MCPAT), this policy note provides a brief overview of key …
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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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's competitiveness. There are two pillars that sustain effective competition policy: (i) opening markets and removing anticompetitive … regulation; and (ii) effectively enforcing competition law. The main focus of this report is the identification of regulations … that could restrict competition and distort markets and business decisions, having a negative effect on Kenya …
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The Madagascar Urbanization Review aims to: - Contribute to the 2019 National Policy for Urban Development (Politique National de Developpement Urbain), the main policy document outlining the priorities for cities in Madagascar. - Serve as a diagnostic tool to identify the key barriers to...
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A large number of studies in recent years have attempted to analyze and quantify the myriad of restrictions holding back economic development in the West Bank and Gaza, but the full picture remains blurred. The main value proposition of this study is to assess and quantify the overall prospects...
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that constrained further investment-driven catch-up growth. Moreover, as China seeks to rebalance its economy from …
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Although global economic activity is recovering and output in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) is expected to grow in 2021, containing COVID-19 remains a challenge in the region. Enterprise survey data for the emerging and developing countries in the region show that COVID-19 had a profound and...
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This handbook has been developed to provide instruction on the design and implementation of incentives for resource-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource-efficiency program in a country on behalf of the...
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For the economy to attain its full potential, the Philippines requires an efficient water transport system. However … enhance competition in the delivery of domestic shipping services, this assessment has therefore focused particularly on …
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population, Peru's agricultural sector has declined in importance as the national economy has grown and urbanized. Economic … agriculture to make up an ever smaller share of the overall economy. The future of Peruvian agriculture should concern policy … makers, for at least five reasons. First, agriculture makes up an important part of the economy, so if agricultural growth …
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