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severe institutional and governance challenges.In 2012, the government of Liberia published its national strategic vision … service sectors, investing in human capital, improving the quality of governance, and strengthening public institutions. In …
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This country economic memorandum aims to support Niger's efforts to walk on a path conducive to a resilient and sustainable economic growth. It does so by attempting to answer the following five questions, each of which constitutes a separate chapter: (i) what were the salient structural...
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This report makes the case for a big investment push for EMDEs' sustainable recovery and development, assesses the magnitude and composition of such investment, presents actions needed for an energy transition, looks at the role that innovations and state capacity can play in facilitating GRID,...
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South Sudan has suffered multiple shocks in 2020, potentially derailing an economic recovery and peace building process …. The FY21 budget seeks to stabilize the economy, provide basic services, consolidate peace, and address Coronavirus (COVID …-19) effects. While South Sudan is currently faced with an economic crisis, this crisis has also provided an opportunity …
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To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, development institutions will need to leverage an unprecedented amount of private sector capital. This is more pressing in the current context as COVID-19 recoveries will require mobilizing both public and private sources in the short...
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This evaluation provides an early-stage assessment of the Sustainable Development Finance Policy (SDFP) of the International Development Association (IDA), which went into effect July 1, 2020. A steep rise in debt vulnerabilities in IDA-eligible countries over the past decade highlighted...
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, tailored its support to the conflict and fragility situation in Somalia and evolving circumstances and country priorities, and …Somalia is today among the poorest and most fragile countries in the world, facing myriad development challenges … related to ongoing conflict, climate change, food insecurity, natural disasters, and displacement. Overlapping crises related …
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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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Iraq's economy is gradually emerging from the deep recession caused by the pandemic and the plunge in oil prices in 2020. Higher oil revenues pushed Iraq's overall fiscal and external balances into a surplus in 2021. The turnaround in oil markets has significantly improved Iraq's economic...
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