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Ghana : Economic Diversification Through Productivity Enhancement
World Bank Group - 2019
After nearly a decade of strong growth fueled by the boom in commodity prices, Ghana's economy remains undiversified and vulnerable to external shocks.This report strives to analyze the main challenges for economic diversification from a productivity angle.In looking at a set of high-growth...
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Unlocking Jobs and Growth Through Productivity : A Firm-Level Diagnostic of Albania
World Bank Group - 2019
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 Albanian annual Structural Business Survey (SBS) collected by...
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Haiti
World Bank Group - 2014
The Country Opinion Survey in Haiti assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Haiti perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private...
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Balancing Workers' Protection and Labor Market Flexibility in China
World Bank Group - 2021
labor market. The proponents of this view assert that over-regulation can reduce labor market flexibility, while under … between workers' protection and market flexibility is not easy. From a political economy point of view, different groups with … special interests lobby vigorously either for further protection or further flexibility. As a result, minimum wages and …
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An Assessment of Employment in Niger
World Bank Group - 2017
Due to frequent domestic and external shocks, Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world. Located in a sub-region repeatedly challenged by security threats such as the Libyan conflict, the Mali crisis and the Boko Haram armed attacks, the Nigerien economy is exposed to severe climate...
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The Labor Market and the COVID-19 Outbreak in Vietnam : Impacts and Lessons Learned for Social Protection
World Bank Group - 2021
This note summarizes the impacts of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on Vietnam's labor market in 2020 and evaluates the social protection response to identify lessons learned for future crises. Vietnam's labor market was shaken by the outbreak in 2020. But an effective...
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Indonesia's Online Vacancy Outlook : From Online Job Postings to Labor Market Intelligence 2020
World Bank Group - 2022
The objective of this technical report and the accompanying skills profiles report is twofold. First, the technical report explains the methodology used to transform job postings text into OV data and in turn, illustrates how to use those data to produce labor market intelligence valuable to...
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Indonesian Economic Transformation and Employment : Policy Input for an Indonesia Jobs Strategy
World Bank Group - 2016
The current downturn in commodity prices provides an opportunity for Indonesia to shift away from its dependence on commodity-driven growth towards higher value-added activities in manufacturing and services. However, Indonesia faces both global and structural challenges in making this...
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Snapshot of Poverty and Labor Market Outcomes in Lebanon Based on Household Budget Survey 2011-2012
Central Administration for Statistics - 2016
This brief is based on analysis of the 2011-12 household budget survey (HBS) implemented by Central Administration for Statistics (CAS) with technical assistance from the World Bank. The survey was conducted during the period of September 2011 to November 2012, and was stratified across nine...
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Western Balkans Regular Economic Report No. 12, Fall 2017 : Job Creation Picks Up
World Bank Group - 2017
This is a semi-annual report series on recent economic developments and economic policies in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia). The report looks at the economic performance and outlook for the Western Balkans region and specific...
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