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Pakistan Development Update, April 2016 : From Stability to Prosperity
World Bank Group - 2016
of low oil prices. Pakistan, while not growing as quickly as its neighbors, has continued its steady growth recovery in H …
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Pakistan at 100 : Structural Transformation
Sharma, Siddharth - 2019
This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100 - Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at … 100 discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle …-income country when it turns hundred years old in 2047. This policy note discusses Pakistan's slow transformation and the need to …
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Pakistan Development Update, November 2016 : Making Growth Matter
World Bank - 2016
Pakistan's growth accelerated in FY16, driven by consumption while investment remained low. Exports continued to fall … when soft global demand exacerbated the effects of Pakistan's long-term decline in competitiveness. After achieving …
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Pakistan Development Update, May 2017 : Growth - A Shared Responsibility
World Bank - 2017
Pakistan's economy continues to grow strongly, emerging as one of the top performers in South Asia. Beneath the surface … governments also have a part to play. The special sections of this update analyze some of the specific challenges facing Pakistan …
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From Ghana to America : the skill content of jobs and economic development
Bello, Salvatore Lo; Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; … - 2019
There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...
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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics
Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
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Development economics through the decades : a critical look at 30 years of the world development report
Yusuf, Shahid - 2009
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Global Economic Prospects, January 2020 : Slow Growth, Policy Challenges
World Bank Group - 2020
Global growth is projected to be slightly faster in 2020 than the post-crisis low registered last year. While growth could be stronger if reduced trade tensions lead to a sustained reduction in uncertainty, the balance of risks to the outlook is to the downside. Growth in emerging market and...
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Future Drivers of Growth in Rwanda : Innovation, Integration, Agglomeration, and Competition
The World Bank - 2020
A strong and widely acknowledged record of economic success-including a three-and-a-half-fold increase in per capita income since 1994--places Rwanda among the world's fastest--growing economies. Traumatic memories of the 1994 genocide are gradually fading, as associations begin to take a more...
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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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