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Marital shocks and women's welfare in Africa

Djuikom, Marie Albertine; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2018

Marital shocks are exceedingly common for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates whether women who have suffered a marital rupture experience lower welfare levels relative to married women in their first union. Conditional means for women's nutritional status are compared by marital...

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Critical Connections : Promoting Economic Growth and Resilience in Europe and Central Asia

Gould, David Michael - 2018

growth in the Europe and Central Asia region. The study breaks new ground by using a multidimensional approach that … critical for achieving the greatest impact on growth.Europe and Central Asia provides a great laboratory for observing the role … within the Europe and Central Asia region and globally. The message is timely. Europe's once-confident march toward economic …

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Toward a New Social Contract : Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia

Bussolo, Maurizio - 2009

The growing economic fissures in the societies of Europe and Central Asia between generations, between insiders and …

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Europe and Central Asia Economic Update, April 2019 : Financial Inclusion

2019

With slowing global growth and increasing uncertainty clouding the global economic prospects,the Europe and Central …

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Belt and road economics : opportunities and risks of transport corridors

Ruta, Michele; Dappe, Matías Herrera; Lall, Somik V.; … - Weltbank - 2019

"China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013 to improve connectivity and cooperation on a transcontinental scale. This study, by a team of World Bank Group economists led by Michele Ruta, analyzes the economics of the initiative. It assesses the connectivity gaps between economies along...

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Europe and Central Asia Economic Update, Spring 2020 : Fighting COVID-19

World Bank Group - 2020

dimensions to make it more relevant for countries in Europe and Central Asia. First, the extension includes quality …

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Europe and Central Asia Economic Update, Fall 2020 : COVID-19 and Human Capital

The World Bank - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit human capital directly in Europe and Central Asia, adversely affecting both education and …

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Cities in Europe and Central Asia : A Shifting Story of Urban Growth and Decline

Zhukova, Sofia - 2017

This report is organized in four sections. Section one provides an overview of the context in which many ECA cities consolidated. This section includes a review of the key factors that shaped the urban systems of ECA, including a discussion of the implication of urbanizing under planned...

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Skills and Europe's Labor Market : How Technological Change and Other Drivers of Skill Demand and Supply are Shaping Europe's Labor Market

Hoftijzer, Margo - 2018

This report complements the recent World Bank publication, Growing United: Upgrading Europe's Convergence Machine …

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Tobacco Taxation in the Eurasian Economic Union

World Bank Group - 2018

The report presents the results of macro-simulations of the consequences of different excise policy scenarios for 2018-2021 in two EAEU countries, Russia and Kazakhstan. Three scenarios are considered: (a) the low-taxation harmonization level and rate of growth proposed by the Eurasian Economic...

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