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Global Economic Prospects, Volume 8, January 2014 : Coping with policy normalization in high-income countries
The World Bank - 2014
High-income economies appear to be finally turning the corner, contributing to a projected acceleration in global growth from 2.4 percent in 2013 to 3.2 percent this year, 3.4 percent in 2015, and 3.5 percent in 2016. Overall, growth in developing countries is projected to pick up modestly from...
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Applying Results-Based Financing in Water Investments
Rodriguez, Diego - 2014
Given the broad array of issues and the complexity faced by the water sector as a whole (from irrigation to flood protection, to water conservation and hydropower), there is great demand for future exploring the potential of RBF and tackling the questions still unanswered about many of its...
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Public-Private Partnerships for Investment and Delivery of Affordable Housing in Emerging Market Economies
World Bank - 2020
The role of the public sector in housing delivery in many developed economies evolved from government as builder in the post-War era in the 1950s when the government directly constructed and delivered housing to meet the daunting demand for housing, to government as enabler and regulator in the...
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Long-run returns to impact investing in emerging market and developing economies
Cole, Shawn; Melecký, Martin; Mölders, Florian; Reed, … - 2020
environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by one of the largest and longest-operating impact investors … investing that some eligible markets do not receive sufficient investment capital …
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Global Economic Prospects, January 2017 : Weak Investment in Uncertain Times
2017 - Online-Ausg.
Stagnant global trade, subdued investment, and heightened policy uncertainty marked another difficult year for the … world economy. A moderate recovery is expected for 2017, with receding obstacles to activity in commodity-exporting emerging … market and developing economies. Weak investment is weighing on medium-term prospects across many emerging market and …
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Russian Economic Report, No. 24, March 2011 : Sustaining Reforms under the Oil Windfall
World Bank - 2011
investment climate for the private sector remain among key long-term challenges. The ongoing rethinking of the government's long …
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Property rights, political connections, and corporate investment
Miao, Meng; Tang, Dragon Yongjun; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2019
studies the impact of an urban land titling program on firm investment. It finds that the program leads to increased … investment rate for titling firms, and the positive effect holds only for politically connected firms. The effects are likely …
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Timor-Leste : An Analysis of Early Grade Reading Acquisition
World Bank - 2010
This report examines the status of reading acquisition in Timor-Leste's primary schools. It is written for education stakeholders and policy makers in Timor-Leste, including government officials, politicians, educators, parents, Timor-Leste's donor partners and Non Governmental Organizations...
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Capital allocation in developing countries
David, Joel M.; Cusolito, Ana Paula; Venkateswaran, Venky; … - 2019
set of moments describing firm-level investment dynamics and detailed parameter estimates on a country-by-country basis …
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Sharing the benefits of innovation-digitization : a summary of market processes and policy suggestions
Islam, Roumeen - 2018
Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies...
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