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This Selected Issues paper analyzes unemployment and education in Namibia. Using the Afrobarometer Project survey data …, and unemployment. The paper finds that unemployment probabilities depend on the level of education. The paper also … describes the main features of poverty in Namibia and assesses the appropriateness of current as well as potential policies to …
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and commodity exporters, exacerbating South Africa’s already-high levels of unemployment (25 percent) and inequality …
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structural constraints, such as protracted strikes and electricity constraints, have been important factors. Unemployment remains …
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In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
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€™s low growth and high unemployment during the 1990s by analyzing enterprise level data. The paper provides some background …
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The review outlines a simple analytical model to explain the unemployment puzzle, especially the U-curve phenomenon. It …
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This 2006 Article IV Consultation highlights that with generally prudent macroeconomic policies, Namibia has enjoyed robust growth, moderate inflation, and strong external surpluses. Growth is expected to increase to 4½ percent in 2006, after 4¼ percent in 2005, owing in part to a recovery...
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The staff report for the 2006 Article IV Consultation on Botswana highlights economic developments and monetary and exchange rate policy. Botswana’s growth has been fueled by continued increases in diamond production; and real diamond output is projected to level off, and then decline...
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significantly reduce poverty and unemployment. Growth averaged 3 percent over the last decade. It has been volatile because of the …
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This paper focuses on Senegal’s second poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP–II). It summarizes the results of the … document for growth and poverty reduction that draws legitimacy from an underlying participatory process, it sets poverty …
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