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Roadmap for a more inclusive and fiscally sustainable post-COVID economy in Mauritania

There’s an old orthodoxy that suggests that a country needs a crisis to induce macroeconomic policy reform. Given the country’s over-reliance on extractive resources, the 2015 commodity price…

Samer Matta, Jesse Doyle|
Debt, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management

International Debt Statistics 2022: Multilateral institutions paved the way for the highest level of net inflows raised in a decade

The International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2022 report, published today, features external debt statistics and analysis for the 123 low- and middle-income countries that report to the World Bank Debt…

World Bank Debt Data Team|
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Critical Choices: A look at the 2021 World Bank Group/IMF Annual Meetings

Opening blog looking at the 2021 World Bank/IMF Annual meetings, which will feature guest speaker and participants across a number of sessions and engagement focused on COVID-19, vaccines, public…

John Mackedon|
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The aftermath of debt surges: No easy solution

As our report The Aftermath of Debt Surges points out, policy makers need to prepare for the looming risk of debt distress when financial market conditions turn less benign, particularly in…

M. Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge, Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff|
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Building Back Better: Supporting Egypt’s efforts at inclusive recovery

A multi-dimensional approach is needed to put Egypt on the path to inclusive and green development, to protect the poor and strengthen human capital, to help create private sector jobs, and to…

Marina Wes|
Agriculture and Food, Competitiveness, Debt, Digital Development, Disaster Risk Management, Education, Environment, Financial Inclusion, Gender, Governance, Health, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Jobs & Development, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty, Social Protection, Social Sustainability and Inclusion, Trade
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