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This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key constraints to growth suggested by cross-country competitiveness studies. Bulgaria’s GDP has grown substantially since economic and financial stabilization in 1997. The global...
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The 2008-09 global economic crises have shown that no country is immune to external challenges. When policy controls are missing or not used efficiently, crises can reverse progress even in advanced economies. This unexpected outcome has increased concerns about the ability of governments in...
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(Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas …
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The Union of the Comoros’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRGS) paper reports that the government⠅
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for private enterprise and sectoral strategies; and poverty reduction and social protection programs. Economic growth in …
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This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …
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) during 2004 in Albania. The NSSED established a multiyear plan to combat poverty and strengthen governance. The main …
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poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …
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<p>Social protection policies that simultaneously reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth and development will be …
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This paper measures the impact of price changes on poverty using the Philippines as an example. The impact of price … changes is captured by the price elasticity of poverty for three widely used poverty measures, namely, headcount ratio …, poverty gap ratio, and severity of poverty. An empirically operational price index called the price index for the poor is …
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