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sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock …
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. Women's groups in Botswana have used advocacy tools such as testing the implementation of gender equality principles in the …
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Infrastructure made a net contribution of just over two percentage points to Botswana's improved per capita growth … boost annual growth by about 1.2 percentage points. Botswana has made significant infrastructure progress in recent years … and load shedding. Botswana's international transport connections and Internet connectivity also lag behind those of …
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This paper analyzes Botswana's medium-term fiscal sustainability in view of the expected depletion of diamonds in the … future. The analysis shows that in the absence of policy adjustments, Botswana's current fiscal policy strategy is … unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger macroeconomic stability and Botswana's reputation as Africa's success story …
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development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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This paper analyzes Botswana's medium-term fiscal sustainability in view of the expected depletion of diamonds in the … future. The analysis shows that in the absence of policy adjustments, Botswana's current fiscal policy strategy is … unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger macroeconomic stability and Botswana's reputation as Africa's success story …
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Since the revision of the Japanese immigration law in 1990, there has been a dramatic influx of Latin Americans, mostly Brazilians, of Japanese origin (Nikkeijin) working in Japan. This is because the revision has basically allowed Nikkeijin to enter Japan legally even as unskilled workers,...
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The paper analyzes migration from Zambia in order to understand how migration policy can support development in the least developed countries. Overall emigration from Zambia is not high by regional standards, but the pattern of migration is skewed toward the skilled and away from the unskilled....
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People migrate to improve their well-being, whether through an expansion of economic and social opportunities or a reduction in persecution. Yet a large literature suggests that migration can be a stressful process, with potentially negative impacts on mental health, reducing the net benefits of...
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This paper reviews the process of job creation and destruction across a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade. It exploits a harmonized firm-level data set drawn from business registers and enterprise census data. The paper assesses the importance of technological...
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