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  1. Library Resource
    Out of the Cauldron, Into the Fire?

    Risk and the Privatisation of Uzbekistan’s Cotton Sector

    Reports & Research
    June, 2020
    Uzbekistan

    Ulster University and the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights has released the first sector wide study on corporate integrity in Uzbekistan.

    The report and associated policy brief focus on the cotton cluster system, a landmark privatisation initiative designed to improve agro-industrial productivity, and address the structural drivers of systematic forced labour in Uzbekistan. State-organised forced labour regimes in Uzbekistan’s cotton sector have attracted significant domestic and international criticism over the past decade.

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    China

    This paper is motivated by the emphasis
    on secure property rights as a determinant of economic
    development in recent literature. The authors use village
    and household level information from about 800 villages
    throughout China to explore whether legal reform increased
    protection of land rights against unauthorized reallocation
    or expropriation with below-average compensation by the
    state. The analysis provides nation-wide evidence on a

  3. Library Resource
    April, 2016
    Myanmar, Global

    Myanmar grew at an estimated 8.5 percent
    in real terms in 2014-15. Economic reforms have supported
    consumer and investor confidence despite business
    environment and socio-political challenges. The economic
    impact of the floods that hit Myanmar from July 2015 is
    still being assessed, but will likely adversely affect the
    main rice crop this year. According to preliminary analysis
    of census data, the areas most affected by the floods are

  4. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Myanmar

    The Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
    will succeed the Myanmar interim strategy note (FY13-14) and
    be the first full country strategy for Myanmar since 1984.
    This CPF comes at a time of great opportunity for Myanmar;
    over the three year period covered in this CPF, the reforms
    initiated in 2011 have the potential to bring Myanmar into a
    new era of peace and prosperity. Myanmar s history, ethnic
    diversity, and geography combine into a unique set of

  5. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Pakistan

    This paper revisits the identification
    of the binding constraints to investment and growth in
    Pakistan by rigorously applying the growth diagnostic
    framework. It has a central finding: Pakistan's
    economy faces two major groups of constraints emerging and
    structural. The emerging constraints include infrastructure
    (energy) deficit, high macro-fiscal risks, and inadequate
    international financing (high country risks and low FDI

  6. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Pakistan

    Pakistan's rebound from the global
    financial crisis has been slow and fragile, and unless it
    changes course swiftly, it could face the prospects of a
    second balance of payments crisis in less than five years.
    Its recovery from the 2008-09 global financial crisis has
    been the weakest in South Asia, featuring a unique
    double-dip growth pattern. With high fertility, Pakistan
    will double the size of its already young population by

  7. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Tajikistan

    This report assesses the challenges and
    opportunities for the development of the Khatlon oblast in
    Tajikistan. The report argues that the rise in the strategic
    significance of Khatlon must be matched by responses in
    public policy and a strong upturn in private investment to
    strengthen economic prospects. The report identifies four
    key reform imperatives for stimulating growth in the oblast.
    These are: (i) promoting cities and internal connectivity to

  8. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    China

    This paper uses data from a large survey
    of Chinese firms to investigate whether local government
    efforts to facilitate market development improve firm
    efficiency. Both government provision of information about
    products, markets, and innovation and government assistance
    in arranging loans are positively associated with firm
    efficiency. Those private firms with weak access to and
    knowledge of financial, input, and product markets benefit

  9. Library Resource
    December, 2012
    Yemen

    This study examines the major
    constraints of rural business entry and performance in
    Yemen. The Yemen rural investment climate survey made it
    possible to analyze rural investment climate constraints for
    rural businesses. The survey was used to investigate both
    farm and nonfarm rural enterprises. The rural investment
    climate was assessed using a combination of subjective
    impressions related by rural entrepreneurs, and a more

  10. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    India

    This paper studies the impact of a large
    debt relief program, intended to attenuate investment
    constraints among highly-indebted households in rural India.
    It isolates the causal effect of bankruptcy-like debt relief
    settlements using a natural experiment arising from
    India's Debt Relief Program for Small and Marginal
    Farmers -- one of the largest debt relief initiatives in
    history. The analysis shows that debt relief has a

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