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world, Malaysia has depleted much of its available fiscal space and will exit the crisis with a larger burden of debt and …
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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 …, prices for both mobile communications and fixed broadband are higher in the DR than in peer countries. Following the World …
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-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource … energy-efficiency issues as this is the particular focus of the World Bank's Climate Competitive Industries program, and is …
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economic growth. In general, Mexico's federal government has a solid competition policy framework in place. Subnational … increase the cost of doing business. The World Bank Group (WBG) was requested to address a critical gap and to pilot a reform …-oriented engagement on competition policy at the subnational level. WBG engaged to motivate an actionable reform plan that can unlock …
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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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To permanently end poverty and hunger by 2030, the world needs a food system that can feed every person, every day … better steward the world's natural resources. Urgently, we need a food system that is more resilient and that shifts from …
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The decline in commodity prices that began with metals and agriculture four years ago—joined by crude oil in mid-2014—continued in 2015Q1 (Figure 1). Energy, metals, and agricultural prices were down 28, 11, and 5 percent, respectively, from the previous quarter. Increasing supplies, bumper...
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Liberia had an estimated 4.3 million hectares of forests in 2011, comprising approximately 50 percent of Liberia’s landmass. These forests support very high levels of biodiversity, provide a wide range of ecosystem services (for example, bush meat, medicines, construction materials, and...
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