This issue of Indonesia daily economic
update for April 2, 2018 contains economic highlights,
including: the headline seasonally adjusted Nikkei Indonesia
Manufacturing...
Women’s co-operatives were
first established in Turkey in 1999. Since then, small
co-operatives - most have less than 25 members - have been
created by women...
Type: BriefReport#: 180929Date: April 2, 2018Author:
World Bank
Citizen engagement is not a new concept
in the world of development. Notions of social
accountability, citizen participation, voice, have been
around development programs...
Type: BriefReport#: 124860Date: April 1, 2018Author:
Galeza,Kamila Anna ;
Faltas Bastorous,Amal Nabil ;
Abdelghaffar,Lina Abdallah Ismail Adel
Reconstruction is slowly replacing oil
production as a driver of growth in the wake of the twin
shocks of the ISIS war and oil revenue decline which caused
a deep recession...
Tunisia has made important strides to
advance its democratic transition, but the country remains
fragile to economic, security and social shocks. Growth has
been too...
This brief discusses refugee welfare in
Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Refugee flows can
significantly alter the social and economic fabric of host
communities,...
Type: BriefReport#: 125157Date: April 1, 2018Author:
Mottaghi,Lili
The impetus to growth from the initial
recovery following the 2014 war has ended resulting in
growth dropping to 2.4 percent in Palestine in Q32017. At 27
percent, unemployment...
Financing infrastructure in emerging
markets is a critical global challenge for sustainable
development. Through a new International Finance Corporation
(IFC) program,...
Kuwait's economy contracted by an
estimated 1 percent in 2017 as OPEC-related oil production
cuts weighed on growth. However, growth should gradually
recover to about...
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
is among the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate
change. The region is projected to experience increasing
temperatures,...
Type: BriefReport#: 125368Date: April 1, 2018Author:
Sieghart,Lia Carol ;
Betre,Mahlette Mussie ;
Mizener,Joseph Allen
Industrial location responds to many
factors, including geography, transport, logistics and ease
of integration into global value chains, domestic market
size and agglomeration...
Type: BriefReport#: 140248Date: April 1, 2018Author:
Gelb,Alan Harold ;
MeyerChristian J. ;
Ramachandran,Vijaya ;
Wadhwa,Divyanshi
In this Knowledge Brief, authors discuss
ways in which youth employment programs can make strategic
use of their data. This Brief is part of the Solutions for
Youth...
Type: BriefReport#: 146609Date: April 1, 2018Author:
Romero, Jose Manuel ;
Carter,Danielle Patrice ;
Mnif, Ali
This poverty and equity brief explains
about the latest available Household Income and Expenditure
Survey (HIES) data for Tuvalu are from 2010. Using the upper
middle...
This poverty and equity brief explains
about Poverty rates in Fiji are among the lowest in the
Pacific. Estimates suggest that less than 2 percent of the
population...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is
proceeding swiftly on its ambitious multifaceted reform
agenda. In 2018, authorities are continuing their commitment
to the OPEC deal,...
This issue of Indonesia MTI Economic
Note contains economic highlights, including: Indonesia’s
economy expanded 5.1 percent yoy in Q1, marginally slower
than 5.2 percent...
The growth in electricity demand in the
Kyrgyz Republic is outpacing supply; in 2014, the country
went from being a net power exporter to a net importer. The
sector...
Type: BriefReport#: 125934Date: April 1, 2018Author:
ESMAP
Jordan's economy remains in a
low-growth scenario. Improvements in tourism and mining and
quarrying are expected to have driven timid improvement in
growth in 2017;...
The relative economic improvement in
2017 remains fragile, as sustaining this dynamic depends
crucially on a political resolution that in the current
context seems hard...
A newly drafted national development
plan (NDP) or poverty reduction strategy (PRS), provide
opportunities to deploy monitoring systems through online
access to dynamic...
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