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performance of the agriculture sector with an emphasis on productivity and competitiveness, and highlights opportunities for …
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financial and competition regulation. There have been several surveys of regulatory responses. This note takes a step back, to …, particularly around competition and market structure. The focus is on economic and technological forces that apply broadly across … market structure and competition outcomes …
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competitive markets. Firms with high pre-crisis labor productivity experienced significantly smaller drops in sales and employment … than firms with low pre-crisis labor productivity and were also more likely to adapt to the crisis by increasing online …
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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 … bottlenecks. Fixed telecom prices have remained largely unresponsive to changes in demand over the last eight years. Moreover …
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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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enhance competition in the delivery of domestic shipping services, this assessment has therefore focused particularly on …
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countries in measures of crop and livestock productivity. This report has aimed to provide a vehicle for dialogue with … point of view that increased productivity will improve the competitiveness of agri-food value chains, result in higher … three areas in which the public sector may be able to use policy and programmatic interventions to spur productivity …
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A competitive city is a city that successfully facilitates its firms and industries to create jobs, raise productivity …
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The purpose of this report is to help policymakers improve economic development and job creation in Cameroon's cities. The report is part of the World Bank's Technical Assistance project on Enhancing Economic Performance of African Cities, supporting clients in the Ministry of Economy, Planning...
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regulation can promote competition in mutual funds (MFs) distribution. In many emerging market economics (EMEs) where both the … manufacture. However, different forces are opening the doors to competition in the distribution channels including (i) a higher … mobile services; and (iii) regulatory reforms, some of them explicitly aimed at increasing competition. These forces are …
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