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The European Union (EU) Regular Economic Report (RER), is an annual publication of the World Bank Group and covers economic developments, prospects, and economic policies in the European Union. The report finds that while growth is back on track, the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution...
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Global poverty is becoming increasingly concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and among households engaged in subsistence agriculture in environments characterized by uncertainty. Understanding how to achieve sustainable increases in household incomes in this context is key to ending extreme...
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Earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies, which reduce national and global economic welfare and...
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Reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions affecting agriculture in developing countries, particularly by cuts to agricultural export taxes and by some reductions in government assistance to agriculture in high-income countries, but international trade in farm products...
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Acknowledgments -- Trade as an engine of growth : patterns, potential and problems -- Revamping incentives : trade policies -- Revamping incentives : industrial policy -- Enhancing connectivity in goods markets -- Enhancing connectivity through services trade reform
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This report aims to assess the spatial dimensions of settlement, internal migration, and welfare inequality in Zimbabwe … at Zimbabwe's historical land allocation, land reform, and economic crisis in the 2000s. Chapter 5 discusses the …
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This report examines agricultural spending in Zimbabwe. This public expenditure review (PER) is the sixth in a series …-cutting issues. The PERs are intended to support the Government of Zimbabwe in improving its fiscal management. Agriculture plays a … critical role in Zimbabwe's economy. About two thirds of Zimbabweans work in agriculture and many Zimbabweans, directly or …
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This report presents a climate smart investment plan (CSAIP) for Zimbabwe's agricultural sector. The agricultural … population and contributing 15 to 20 percent to gross domestic product (GDP). In response, the Government of Zimbabwe, with the … objectives across Zimbabwe's existing agricultural policies and climate change strategies, which will contribute to the …
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The mission met with government officials from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED), comprising the departments responsible for debt management (DeM), id est the Public Debt Management Office (PDMO), executing the middle and back office functions, and the Departments of...
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The report summarizes the findings of an allocative and implementation efficiency analysis of Zimbabwe's HIV response … across the care cascade, which was conducted using the Optima-HIV model. The analysis was conducted to support Zimbabwe in … resources in Zimbabwe through allocative and implementation efficiency gains …
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