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In the past half a century, Egypt has experienced remarkable progress in the provision of infrastructure in all areas … perspective, Egypt has achieved an infrastructure status that closely corresponds to what could be expected given its national … income level. The present infrastructure status is the result of decades of purposeful investment. In the past 15 years …
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This paper studies the effects of regulation on economic growth and the relative size of the informal sector in a large sample of industrial and developing countries. Along with firm dynamics, informality is an important channel through which regulation affects macroeconomic performance and...
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This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes …
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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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