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Dominican Republic : Leveraging Competition in the Telecom Sector to Accelerate Economic Growth

World Bank Group - 2021

telecommunications sector remains dominated by a small number of companies. In addition, the antimonopoly policy is perceived to be weak … bottlenecks affecting the telecommunications sector, as well as key pro-competition reforms that could improve the regulatory … landscape. Due to its inherent characteristics, the telecommunications markets, fixed, mobile and internet, in DR are …

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Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth : What, Who, and How

World Bank Group - 2015

A competitive city is a city that successfully facilitates its firms and industries to create jobs, raise productivity, and increase the incomes of citizens over time. Worldwide, improving the competitiveness of cities is a pathway to eliminating extreme poverty and to promoting shared...

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CEMAC : Deepening Regional Integration to Advance Growth and Prosperity

World Bank Group - 2018

The Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), which consists of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, is one of the oldest regional groupings in Africa. The main objectives for achieving this are: (i) the creation of a...

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Growth and Jobs in Slavonia, Baranja, and Srijem : Rapid Diagnostics

World Bank Group - 2019

Slavonia's economy is now amongst the poorest in the European Union (EU) and has been growing more slowly than comparable regions. Some Polish and Romanian counties were less advanced until 2013 but have now overtaken Slavonia. Achieving a turnaround is difficult: only 9 percent of lagging...

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Renewing with Growth

World Bank Group - 2021

Latin America and the Caribbean suffered the largest death toll from Covid?19 across developing regions and the sharpest decline in economic activity. With fewer school days and lower employment rates, with higher public debt and more firms under stress, the effects could be long?lasting. The...

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