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The World Bank prepared three background studies as inputs for the development of the Cambodia Logistics Master Plan … led by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in 2017-2018. These studies benefit from a close coordination and … Cambodia, and (c) a design of the monitoring and evaluation (MandE) framework for the proposed Cambodia Logistics Master Plan …
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Cambodia has become one of the world's leaders in poverty reduction and shared prosperity. Cambodia sustained an … average growth rate of 7.6 percent in 1994-2015, ranking sixth in the world, and has now become a lower middle-income economy …. Cambodia's success has ridden on employment creation, although labor productivity gains have been lower than in other fast …
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legal and regulatory systems. It is widespread in the majority of developing countries-in a typical developing economy, the … capital and labor in a modern economy. Second, it opens the possibility of labor migration from a rudimentary economy with an …
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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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A large number of studies in recent years have attempted to analyze and quantify the myriad of restrictions holding back economic development in the West Bank and Gaza, but the full picture remains blurred. The main value proposition of this study is to assess and quantify the overall prospects...
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welcoming effect for Kazakhstan in terms of enhancing the economy's buffers and supporting growth, it may also reduce the … developing a Dutch-Disease type of episode that could reduce economy's competitiveness and lower opportunities for … tradable nonoil sector's role in the economy, the government must demonstrate significant improvements to the rule of law, the …
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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...
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This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
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Cambodia has recorded both rapid economic growth and macroeconomic stability in recent decades despite (or thanks to …) high levels of dollarization. Previous studies on dollarization in Cambodia have largely focused on examining its causes … and estimating seigniorage losses. As an attempt to further explore the effects of dollarization in Cambodia, this paper …
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Using an event-study framework, this paper examines the impact of four minimum wage hikes between 2008 and 2015 on the Cambodian labor market. The analysis finds that, except for immediate adjustments around the time of the hikes, the minimum wage hikes did not affect participation rates in the...
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