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The year 2019 marks the tenth year of the Right to Information (RTI) act enactment in Bangladesh. The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has made good progress in implementing the RTI Act 2009 in the past decade. The RTI survey was conducted between January and March of 2019. The survey results...
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Haba Haba, which means "bit by bit" in Swahili, is a voluntary pension scheme in Kenya for workers in informal employment and promises to be a scheme through which they can slowly but surely save for their old age. The scheme, administered by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) was launched...
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Gender equality is a key foundation of inclusive and sustainable economic development that can translate into long-term and effective poverty reduction. While gender equality matters on its own as a human right, it also offers instrumental value for individuals, households, and societies at...
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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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