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Strong economic growth continued in 2014-15, but the drought slowed down Ethiopia's growth to 8 percent in 2015-16. Exports have had their worst performance in the last decade and the current account balance remained large. Inflation is remarkable stable given the recent drought and even...
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This brief is based on analysis of the 2011-12 household budget survey (HBS) implemented by Central Administration for Statistics (CAS) with technical assistance from the World Bank. The survey was conducted during the period of September 2011 to November 2012, and was stratified across nine...
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This is a semi-annual report series on recent economic developments and economic policies in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia). The report looks at the economic performance and outlook for the Western Balkans region and specific...
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This report is the second in a series, presenting labor market developments in the Western Balkan countries in 2017 and comparing with selected member states of the European Union (EU). The report is the result of collaboration between the World Bank and the Vienna Institute for International...
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wages in the Western Balkans …
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As many developing countries around the world, Ethiopia is faced with the challenge of generating employment for a … structure of the country, the nature of work, and labor mobility and the growth of town and cities. This jobs and employment … study focus on employment dynamics in Ethiopia between 1999 and 2016. Using data from a variety of sources, mainly the labor …
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This report identifies and quantifies Nepal's key jobs challenges and the implications for future job creation, job quality and gender disparities. The diagnostic examines the slow pace of structural transformation, the existing distribution of jobs by work status, productivity level and worker...
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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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The objective of this report is to analyze the recent employment trends in the Indonesian tobacco industry and estimate … the potential effects of raising cigarette taxes on employment in the tobacco manufacturing sector. The report provides … new evidence to contribute to the ongoing debate about the effects of raising cigarette taxes on tobacco sector employment …
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agricultural inputs will curtail the longer-term earnings capacity of households. There has been little evidence of productivity …. And while interventionist measures to promote import substitution and self-sufficiency can generate employment and …
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