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Employment data in household surveys : taking stock, looking ahead
Desiere, Sam; Costa, Valentina - 2019
Individual-level employment data have a wide range of applications. They are used to monitor labor markets and the … design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and … captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …
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Gendered laws
Hyland, Marie; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2019
This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...
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Employment in South Asia : a new dataset
Beyer, Robert; Chocce, Milagros; Rama, Martín - 2019
This paper presents a new dataset of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more … dataset is illustrated by conducting a rigorous assessment of employment characteristics, of changes in employment over time …, and of the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and employment growth in South Asia. The exercise …
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Structural reforms to set the growth ambition
Rovo, Natasha - 2020
The effect of structural reforms on growth in Europe and Central Asia is assessed by looking separately at each supply-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for the interaction with the economic cycle, the...
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Morocco's growth and employment prospects : public policies to avoid the middle-income trap
Pinto Moreira, Emmanuel - 2019
This paper studies Morocco's growth and employment prospects in the context of a new growth model aimed at allowing the … inequality. The third part attempts to quantify the medium-run effects of these policies on growth, employment, and unemployment … need to implement far-reaching reforms, to increase growth to a range of 6-7 percent and improve employment creation to …
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Does media stimulate reform efforts?
Ramalho, Rita; Saltane, Valentina - 2019
This paper investigates to what extent media impacts political decisions. A viable practical approach to test the relationship between mass media and political actions is through the use of the World Bank's Doing Business data, specifically, by assessing local media coverage of Doing Business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114015
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World Bank's Experience with Structural Reforms for Growth and Development
Swaroop, Vinaya - 2016
The World Bank Group has come a long way in supporting structural reforms in its member countries. The most remarkable feature of its long 35 years and continuing journey has been its ability to listen, learn and adjust over time. It learnt relatively quickly that reform ownership is a necessary...
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Armenia Country Economic Update, Fall/Winter 2017-18 : A Window of Opportunity to Tackle Challenging Reforms
World Bank Group - 2017
The World Bank expects the Armenian economy to grow about 4 percent in 2017 with a modest but sustained recovery envisaged over the medium term. After stagnating in 2016, the economy showed renewed and greater-than-expected strength in the first half of 2017, which has continued into the third...
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China Economic Update, December 2017 : Growth Resilience and Reform Momentum
World Bank Group - 2017
Gross domestic product (GDP) growth in China has remained strong in 2017, exceeding market expectations. Supported by risinghousehold incomes, the growth contribution of final consumption increased further this year. At the same time, the growth contribution of fixed investment has declined...
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Gulf Economic Monitor, February 2018 : Deepening Reforms
World Bank Group - 2018
This second edition of the twice-yearly Gulf Economic Monitor describes recent economic developments, near-term prospects, and broader reform priorities in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (The Pulse of the Region). Regional aggregate GDP growth in 2017 weakened to just 0.5 percent,...
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