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Somalia Economic Update, June 2020 : Impact of COVID-19 - Policies to Manage the Crisis and Strengthen Economic Recovery
World Bank Group - 2020
Before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, Somalia's economy was on an upward trajectory, recovering from the 2016/17 drought. The economy grew at an estimated rate of 2.9 percent in 2019, on par with population growth, and was projected to grow at 3.2 percent in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has...
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Assessment of Corporate Sector Value and Vulnerability: Links to Exchange Rtae and Financial Crises.
Gray, D.F. - World Bank Group - 1999
This paper presents an innovative yet practical framework to assess corporate sector vulnerability and the links to exchange rates and financial crises that bridges the gap between corporate finance and macroeconomic analysis. This framework missing describing how changes in aggregate value of...
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Towards a Payment Systems Law for Developing and Transition Economies.
Bhala, R. - World Bank Group - 1995
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Pakistan Development Update, June 2019 : Weathering the Storm - Restoring Macroeconomic Stability
World Bank Group - 2019
Pakistan is facing yet another balance of payment crisis. Authorities have taken some corrective measures and negotiated a 39-month stabilization program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Nonetheless, inflationary pressures increased during FY19. Current account deficit narrowed as...
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Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality
World Bank Group - 2020
Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women … complexity and specificity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is essential to assess the potential impact of trade … policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance …
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Boosting Financial Resilience to Disaster Shocks : Good Practices and New Frontiers
World Bank Group - 2019
Governments face growing contingent liabilities from disasters as they tend to shoulder a significant share of disaster response and recovery costs. Disaster shocks increase government expenditure and hamper economic activities. An increasing number of countries are developing financial...
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Solutions toEnd Poverty ona Livable Planet - Insights from World Bank CountryClimate and Development Reportscovering 42 economies
World Bank Group - 2023
The world faces a triple crisis of three interconnected issues-development, climate, and nature― and current levels of … World Bank launched the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) in 2022. This core diagnostic tool aims to help … global climate change challenge. The first set of CCDRs covered only 10 percent of the world’s tropical forests, but the …
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Algeria Economic Monitor, Fall 2020 : Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic, Engaging Structural Reforms
World Bank Group - 2020
This report presents an overview of Algeria's recent macroeconomic developments and of its short-term economic outlook. The report is divided into two chapters. Chapter one presents the country's macroeconomic developments in 2019, which establishes the context for the unprecedented developments...
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Crisis and Recovery : Learning from COVID-19's Economic Impacts and Policy Responses in East Asia
World Bank Group - 2023
More than three years after the first COVID-19 case was discovered in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region, it is time to take stock of the lasting effects-and opportunities-of the pandemic and identify which policies may have helped stem the economic losses suffered by households and firms....
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Financial Integration, Vulnerability to Crisis, and EU Accession in Five Central European Countries.
Nabli, M. - World Bank Group - 1999
The objective of this study is to help assess the possible vulnerabilities in a number of Central European countries as they proceed with global financial integration and EU accession. The report focuses on those countries slated to be the first in the region to join the EU, the Czech Republic,...
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