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In 2016, the Government of Bulgaria (GoB) decided to initiate spending reviews to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its spending in the context of a moderate fiscal consolidation process. Though Bulgaria has one of the lowest overall spending in the European Union (EU), spending...
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Uganda is the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa and the third-largest worldwide. Because of ongoing conflicts and instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, Uganda is hosting over 1.33 million refugees and asylum seekers. The prolonged and steady influx of refugees...
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Women face many barriers to using public transport services, despite representing the largest share of public transport users around the world. Transport and infrastructure-oriented barriers are related to constraints in its affordability, acceptability and availability, as well as to the...
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, which examined the organizational structure for investigating and prosecuting tax crime and corruption, as well as models …
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productive sectors of Somalia's economy, generating jobs and incomes, and reducing the country's large structural trade deficits …, which have averaged over 80 percent of GDP since 2015. Somalia supplies a limited number of exports to a relatively small … sectors of the economy and are vulnerable to weather and other shocks. Somalia also exports to a small set of countries: 82 …
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Somalia has a triple challenge of low levels of labor force participation, low productivity, and high levels of poverty …. Economic growth in Somalia has been low, subject to shocks; and thus, insufficient for job creation. Shocks to the economy have … largely driven by consumption and supported by external financial flows. In Somalia's state-building context, enhancing …
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. Focusing on young people is particularly meaningful as Somalia's population is the youngest of the African continent overall …. Against a backdrop of continued conflict, insecurity, and violent extremism facing Somalia, the study offers a positive vision …
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Somalia's economy grew by 2.3 percent in 2017. The economy remains vulnerable to recurrent shocks. Between 2013 and … agricultural output in late 2016 and early 2017. For Somalia to enhance and sustain economic growth and escape chronic poverty, it … essential part of Somalia's economic ecosystem. Almost three-quarters of the population aged 16 and above use mobile money on a …
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To sustain its positive trajectory, Somalia needs to break out of its dual development trap, where inadequate resources … most vulnerable. To break out of this cycle and launch itself on a durable development trajectory, Somalia will need both …
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