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Facilitating Safe Labor Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Issues, Challenges, and Forward-Looking Interventions
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program has adopted a multisector approach to economic corridor development, requiring multisector investments, increased inter-sector coordination, and enhanced knowledge platform. An area of concern is facilitating safe labor migration....
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Taxation policy and gender employment in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A comparative analysis of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia
Fofana, Ismaël; Corong, Erwin; Chatti, Rim; Bouazouni, Omar - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the … pattern of male and female employment and discusses the indirect tax distortions across sectors within each country and … between countries. The possible impact of the indirect tax distortion on male and female employment is quantitatively assessed …
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Bhutan Living Standards Survey 2012 Report
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB); … - 2013
health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011254939
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Framework of Inclusive Growth Indicators Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 Special Supplement
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012
The Framework of Inclusive Growth Indicators 2012 (FIGI 2012) is the follow-up edition to FIGI 2011, which proposed a set of 35 indicators as measures of income and non-income outcomes of inclusive growth; the processes and inputs that are important to improve access to opportunities, social...
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Country Diagnostics Studies: Papua New Guinea Critical Developments Constraints
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012
Papua New Guinea’s economic growth has outpaced the majority of economies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific since 2007. Its development challenges, however, remain daunting, and it lags behind other countries in the region in terms of per capita income and achievement of the Millennium...
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Myanmar in Transition: Opportunities and Challenges
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012
Myanmar, which is emerging from decades of isolation, is poised to accelerate its economic growth on the back of its abundant labor force, rich natural resources, and geographical location.But the country faces many development challenges to achieve strong and inclusive growth.To take advantage...
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Pacific Economic Monitor (July 2014)
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014
The Monitor provides an update of developments in Pacific economies and explores topical policy issues.
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The political economy of Zambia’s recovery: Structural change without transformation?:
Resnick, Danielle; Thurlow, James - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
generated additional jobs, but the share of employment growth from these sectors was small and skewed more toward higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132683
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Heterogeneous pro–poor targeting in India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme:
Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public works employment … project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor. How …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132698
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Welfare and poverty impacts of India’s national rural employment guarantee scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh:
Deininger, Klaus; Liu, Yanyan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132747