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Climate-Related Shocks and Fiscal Sustainability : Potential Impacts and Policy Options
World Bank Group - 2023
Real GDP expanded by 17.7 percent in 2022, with per capita incomes surpassing the pre-pandemic levels. On the supply side, accommodation, transport, and commerce explained 60 percent of growth. On the demand side, exports (mainly tourism) and private consumption accounted for growth. The rebound...
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Republic of Liberia Economic Update, June 2021 : Finding Fiscal Space
World Bank Group - 2021
In the years leading to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, Liberia's economic performance was already weak. Since 2014 a series of severe shocks stopped in its track the growth momentum that had been spurred by the Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2003. The economy was buffeted by the...
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The Distributional Impact of COVID-19 Fiscal Policies on Households, with Emphasis on Da Nang City
World Bank Group - 2021
This note will examine the distributional and efficiency issues associated with the fiscal response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis in Da Nang city and nationally in Vietnam. More specifically, we look at the social assistance (cash transfer) programs. Did these programs efficiently reach...
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The Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on Subnational Public Finance : The Case of Danang City
World Bank Group - 2021
The national economy of Vietnam was affected by the April 2020 lockdown meant to contain the domestic spread of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) virus and subsequent outbreaks in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City. Nevertheless, the economy showed exceptional resilience. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by...
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Aggregate Fiscal Impact of COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2021
This note analyzes the short-term effects of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) shock during the first year of the crisis and … the shock, and how, in turn, did they affect the fiscal space available to the authorities What tax measures did the … authorities implement to mitigate the shock and how successful were they What are the implications for any future tax policy and …
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Macroeconomic Stability, Fiscal Policy and Taxation : National Development Strategy Croatia 2030 Policy Note
World Bank Group - 2019
Croatia has made significant economic progress since independence, but the global financial crisis has exposed weaknesses in its economy and growth model. While growth has resumed in 2015, income convergence has been thrown back by the crisis and by the prolonged recession that followed and is...
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Timor-Leste Public Expenditure Review : Changing Course Towards Better and More Sustainable Spending
World Bank Group - 2021
This Public Expenditure Review is focused on the quality and sustainability of public spending. The key objective of this Public Expenditure Review (PER) is to assess the quality of public spending, by evaluating its efficiency and effectiveness, while also delving into sustainability...
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Cabo Verde Economic Update, April 2021 : Rebounding from the Crisis; Restoring Fiscal Sustainability and Leveraging the Private Sector for a more Resilient and Sustainable Recovery
World Bank Group - 2021
The objective of this report is to provide an update to the Government of Cabo Verde, think-tanks and researchers, and the public on the state of the Cabo Verde economy and its outlook, together with the structural reforms required to strengthen the foundations for private sector-led recovery...
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Recovering Growth : Rebuilding Dynamic Post; Covid Economies Amid Fiscal Constraints
World Bank Group - 2021
After its worst economic crisis in 100 years, Latin America and the Caribbean countries are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to recover dynamic, inclusive, and sustainable growth to redress both the legacy of the pandemic and long-standing social needs has never been more acute....
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Sierra Leone Public Expenditure Review 2021 : Fiscal Policy for a Sustainable Recovery
World Bank Group - 2021
This Fiscal and Debt Sustainability Note, the first module of a programmatic multisectoral Public Expenditure Review (PER), reviews the recent macro-fiscal challenges, analyzes their causes and consequences and provide policy options for enhancing the conduct of fiscal and PFM policies in the...
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