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Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...
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Lebanon is in Crisis. While it is too early to gauge the economic impact of recent events, it is important to note that even prior to the eruption of the demonstrations, the World Bank projected a small recession in 2019; we now estimate that the recession will be deeper. There has been an...
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The Government of Indonesia has introduced many reforms to improve the quality of education but learning outcomes have continued to lag. Improving the quality of education has been especially challenging in rural and remote areas. Starting in 2016, the World Bank supported the Government of...
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The special topic of this edition of the Macroeconomic Monitoring report focuses on the TC administration's 'public' financial support to the agriculture sector. Due to the Turkish lira depreciation, the recent adverse climate conditions, and exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis, the agriculture...
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progress has been achieved regarding increasing opportunities for women and men in Turkey and where further policy action is … Women in Turkey. The Turkish Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS) collected by the Ministry of Development (MoD) and … Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, and the Research on Family Structure in Turkey (TAYA) by MoFSP were also …
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Over the last decade, turkey has initiated several regulatory and institutional reforms to better mitigate and reduce … produce housing for low-income groups in Turkey, and with the Mass Housing Law No. 2985 (1984), they aimed to accelerate the … production in Turkey. In the 2000s, the legal concept of "urban transformation" emerged; and it started to be mentioned together …
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The Country Opinion Survey in Turkey assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in Turkey perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments …, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Turkey on 1) their views regarding the …
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- enabled Turkey to recover from its shock of 2016, with growth accelerating to 7.4 percent in 2017. The outcome of supply … orderly adjustment is important for productivity and potential output. Turkey has been prone to large economic swings in the …
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Mid-2018 was a period of intense market volatility and rising economic stress in Turkey that was precipitated by … sharp slowdown in capital flows to Turkey in 2018 Q2-Q3. Though this did not technically amount to a sudden stop, Turkey was … current account deficit, high inflation, overheating economy) and perceived policy weaknesses. Market volatility in Turkey has …
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Turkey's pace of income convergence has globally been one of the most remarkable of the past fifteen years. Sustaining … growth and improvements in living standards in Turkey will require higher productivity in the economy. The Turkey … Productivity Report (2019) provides an in-depth analysis of firm productivity in Turkey and how this adds up to economic growth in …
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