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Since 2003, Peru has emerged as an open, rapidly growing economy. Over the review period of 2003-09, successive governments adopted policy platforms aimed at maintaining macroeconomic stability, furthering the private sector supply response, broadening participation in growth, improving social...
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Almost half the population remain poor, but the proportion has increased in rural areas and decreased in urban areas. Poverty stands at 48.6 percent nationally and almost 70 percent in rural areas; 21.3 percent are extreme poor, rising to 32.2 percent in rural areas5. The poverty rate hasn't...
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Despite an initial surge in COVID-19 cases, cross country data suggests that Turkey containedrelatively quickly the spread and worst health effects of the virus. As in other countries, however, continued vigilance is essential to sustain this fragile trend. Turkey's pandemic response may offer...
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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 to the COVID-19 pandemic, a prolonged drought, and...
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Between 1993 and 2013, Mozambique became one of the fastest-growing economies in Sub-Saharan Africa boosting incomes and living standards. Political and macroeconomic stability provided the foundation for robust growth led by a rebounding agricultural sector and significant donor support....
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Papua New Guinea has abundant resources in the form of oil and mineral wealth. But a complex set of factors, including systemic gender inequality, underinvestment in non-extractive sectors, and fragility compounded by vulnerability to disasters caused by natural hazards act as barriers to...
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, real revenues at the local level in Ukraine have more than halved. This report …
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The Country Opinion Survey in Ukraine assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in Ukraine 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 Ukraine on 1) their views regarding the …
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Ukraine experiences one of the most severe HIV epidemics in Europe. This policy brief is a result of a team effort … involving the State Institution Ukrainian Center for Socially Dangerous Disease Control of the MOH of Ukraine, and international … partners. There are major opportunities, but also major risks in relation to HIV investment decisions in Ukraine in the coming …
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