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This note takes stock of productivity trends of the Albanian non-agricultural private sector using granular firm …-level data. To understand better the sources of jobs and productivity growth, this note analyzes firm-level data from the … employment and productivity gaps remain. Between 2006 and 2016 the country has seen a doubling of its formal private sector …
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As Malaysia continues to strive toward high-income status, accelerating productivity growth has become the country …'s central economic policy challenge. Productivity growth has become increasingly important as the country's traditional economic … underscore the vital importance of productivity growth to the continued development of the Malaysian economy. Malaysia …
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This report aims to provide policy makers in Albania with new evidence to inform the design and implementation of public policies on post-secondary education, vocational education and training (VET) system labor market information and intermediation, and labor policies. The STEP Employer Survey...
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Towards Employment and Productivity (STEP) initiative of the World Bank has developed household-level and firm-based surveys …
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Poland. Second, chapter 2 provides key insights from the results by linking technology adoption with productivity, managerial … Sectoral approach to the drivers of productivity growth in Polish sectors. A firm-level perspective on technology adoption and … in Poland that describes the role that the service sector can play in spurring productivity growth …
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Zambia needs to increase productivity and accelerate economic transformation to achieve sustained and inclusive growth … Memorandum (CEM) discusses two pathways that can support Zambia's productivity-enhancing economic transformation, generate better …, become more productive in them, or reallocate to more productive jobs. These factors cause average labor productivity to rise …
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Economic growth is expected to attain 3.1 percent in both 2016 and 3.2 percent in 2017 accelerating from 2.8 percent last year with private consumption and public investment as key drivers as consumer sentiment recovers, households deleverage and large public infrastructure projects are...
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In September 2017, Ghana's economy expanded for the fifth successive quarter by 9.3 percent compared to just 4.3 percent in September 2016. This reflects continued high levels of growth in the industry sector, driven by mining and petroleum. Oil production rose by 16.6 percent compared with a...
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The welfare and economic growth of Azerbaijan's development trajectory based on fossil fuel extraction has come at the expense of the environment, other non-oil industries, and human capital growth. Due to its lack of economic diversification, the country is highly vulnerable to transition...
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