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The halal economy (HE) plays an important role in Malaysia's economic growth, contributing 7.5 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as of 2020. Under the Twelfth Malaysia Plan, 2021-2025 (12MP), one of the key strategies to boost Malaysia's economic growth is enhancing the competitiveness...
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Islamic trade finance (ITF) offers a meaningful opportunity for Malaysia. ITF can play a substantial role to support trade, foster growth, and accelerate post-pandemic recovery. In addition to its impact on the domestic economy, enhancing ITF can bring benefits to other Organization of Islamic...
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Sierra Leone and offer a set of priority areas of intervention to further the twin goals of reducing extreme poverty and … the potential to unlock growth, reduce poverty, and improve the lives of the Sierra Leonean population …
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Liberia's status as a fragile state is deeply rooted in the political and economic exclusion practiced by the country's founders. Although they constituted just 5 percent of the population, freed American slaves and their descendants dominated the country's intellectual and ruling class from...
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identifies the key challenges and opportunities for Burundi to accelerate progress in poverty reduction and shared prosperity in … living conditions; and (ii) the many competing 'binding' reasons for poverty in Burundi. Burundi is a densely populated, poor …
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understand poverty's determinants. Exploiting data from the 2017 household expenditure survey, as well as administrative and … geospatial data, it provides a detailed analysis of poverty in the country, its strong link to labor market outcomes, and the … shows that over a fifth of the Djiboutian population continues to live in extreme poverty and that the country has high …
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. The backward-looking analysis aims to draw lessons on the determinants of poverty and sustainable and inclusive growth … from (a) stakeholder consultations; (b) a poverty profile; (c) a jobs profile; and (d) a review of Cote d … trajectories. The poverty analysis shows that over the past 25 years, poverty has deepened considerably, in particular in rural …
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Development Goals pertaining to environment and poverty, and the voices calling for new approaches through green new deal, green …
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poverty and stubborn persistence of inequality to the devastations caused by climate disasters, fragility, pandemics, and … knowledge to a new level, placing it front and center of the WBG's work to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a …
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The world faces a triple crisis of three interconnected issues-development, climate, and nature- and current levels of climate action are insufficient. Beyond the grim headlines, there are increasingly clear opportunities to achieve triple wins. To support the alignment of sustainable...
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