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Structural change and reforms have been a key driver of rapid growth in China: over the last decades China specialized into new industries, its people moved to new locations and firms adapted to new...
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The Odisha Inclusive Growth Partnership project aims to help the government of Odisha diversify the state’s economic base and catalyze private investments in non-natural resource sectors such as...
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The call for inclusive growth has been unanimously broadcasted by policy makers across the world. The Arab Spring, the growing divide between Main Street and Wall Street in advanced economies, and...
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Achieving sustained economic growth through enhanced productivity requires quality education that prepares students for the labor market.
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Over the last few years, Brazil’s growth has significantly decelerated. Accompanying this slowdown, a change in commentary on Brazil’s economic future has emerged, and is reflected in a recent...
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This report supports a joint World Bank-IFC initiative to review and evaluate economic growth prospects for Khatlon Oblast in order to develop a private sector-driven strategy for accelerating the...
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One of the most important lessons in economics is that productivity is key to economic growth. Productivity is defined in economic theory as the ratio of output over input. Productivity is mainly...
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This note studies the long-run impacts of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic growth in Brazil. After a brief review of gender issues in Brazil, this note describes a framework...
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"The Africa region has an opportunity to harness the digital revolution to foster growth and innovation, as well as eradicate extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity"
In this edition of...
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Major events have reshaped the internal population flows of Eurasia, including the breakup of the Soviet Union, the development of market economies, and the rising influence of regional powers....
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This guidance note is about a recent mining boom in Odisha, that accelerated and diversified economic growth in the Indian state. However, the boom did not reduce poverty in the mining region....
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are seen as a key enabler across many sectors and services (e.g. water, energy, education, health) and a driver of economic growth. They provide key...
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Economist Yasheng Huang compares China to India, and asks how China's authoritarian rule contributed to its astonishing economic growth — leading to a big question: Is democracy actually holding...
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The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years — and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans...
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Significant changes are on the horizon for Myanmar as it embarks on a path of inclusive growth over the next three years. The 2015-2017 Country Partnership Framework, the World Bank Group's first...
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"The potential of integrating nutrition and early childhood interventions into a life-cycle approach to personal and economic development"
There is extensive evidence that reducing undernutrition...
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Thailand’s economy is expected to grow 3.2% in 2016 and 2017, with the service sector driving much of that increase. We asked Thai people working in a variety of service sector jobs for their views...
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Despite the slump in global oil prices, the start of commercial oil production in Uganda in 2018 offers long-term prospects to diversify the country’s economy and catapult it to upper middle income...
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Knowledge Note
A low-carbon industry project in Bangladesh is aiming to reduce the carbon footprint of the country’s export processing zones (EPZs). The goal is to assist the government in establishing guidelines...
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The state of Rajasthan offers unique opportunities for private sector investment, but it only accounts for 3 percent of total investment in India. The investment climate project in Rajasthan aims to...
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