Productivity-enhancing measures play a pivotal role in Malaysia’s aspirations of becoming a high-income economy. Malaysia has enjoyed an impressive growth performance over the past few decades, with growth...
This book challenges policy makers who oversee the rice sector in Southeast Asia to reexamine deep-rooted precepts about their responsibilities. As an essential first step, it calls on them to redefine...
Many small-and medium-size emerging exporters in developing countries have inadequate access to short-term working capital to finance their export transactions. Several countries have established pre-shipment...
Although trade liberalization can create jobs and raise incomes, these benefits are easily undermined if excessive costs and delays hinder trade transactions - reducing a country's export competitiveness...
Many small- and medium-sized emerging exporters in developing countries have inadequate access to short-term working capital to finance their export transactions. This is mainly due to a market failure...
Although trade liberalization can create jobs and raise incomes, these benefits can easily be undermined if trade transactions involve excessive costs and delays-reducing a country's export competitiveness...
This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Jordan country unit. This issue features: In this edition: World Bank Contacts; Linking Jordan to Regional and Global Markets: The Importance of Trade...
This policy note is the first of two volumes, drafted in conjunction with a more detailed technical report. It was prepared in response to a request by the Government of Tunisia for Bank assistance to...
This policy note is the first of two volumes, drafted in conjunction with a more detailed technical report. It was prepared in response to a request by the Government of Tunisia for Bank assistance to...
Morocco has made significant progress toward becoming a more open and efficient economy. Since the mid-1980s, its economic growth which has been fueled by strong private sector export growth in the textiles...