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the quality of research and collaboration between firms and research institutions would help to diffuse digital … technologies more widely across the economy. Fighting widespread informality, improving the low debt recovery through a more …
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climate change mitigation objectives. The analysis focuses on investments in infrastructure and equipment in the manufacturing …
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contributed to a lesser extent. In manufacturing, within-industry polarization is mostly associated with technological change, but … outside of manufacturing, technological change and offshoring are the most relevant forces affecting within … find that Chinese import competition contributed to the decline of employment in the less polarized manufacturing …
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. The rate and pace of utilisation of eight main ICT applications shows that Austrian firms follow peer country counterparts … for progress in both of them. First, the potential for digitalisation in all firms, and especially in the smaller ones … new firms and their growth are crucial for the diffusion of new business models and ICT innovations but fall behind peer …
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Informality has important implications for productivity, economic growth, and the inequality of income. In recent years …
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Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards. Income dispersion largely originates from the labour market, which is characterised by a still high unemployment rate, a pervasive informal sector and a wide wage dispersion...
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Turkey can achieve strong sustainable growth and job creation but further reforms in the labour market, education and product markets are required for such gains to materialise. In recent years, growth has been largely driven by the industrial catch-up of Anatolian regions, although the Marmara...
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Indonesia has come a long way in improving its tax system over the last decade, both in terms of revenues raised and administrative efficiency. Nonetheless, the tax take is still low, given the need for more spending on infrastructure and social protection. With the exception of the natural...
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Illicit financial flows (IFFs) in West Africa have long contributed to the region’s instability, partly due to their links to regional terrorist organisations such as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). AQIM has directly and indirectly participated in and perpetuated illicit financial...
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This paper explores the flow of illicit narcotics transiting West Africa. It is divided into four sections, providing an overview of the nature and scope of the illicit narcotic economy, the networks and actors involved and its development impacts, including its resulting illicit financial...
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