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This report’s starting point is thus to
acknowledge that despite Sweden’s many virtues, there are
areas in which it can do better, and the task has been to
identify those areas, focusing particularly on the quality
of the investment climate and competitiveness. This has been
done in two main ways. First, by looking at areas of the
business environment captured by databases compiled in the
World Bank Group’s Global Indicators Group—Doing Business,
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The note first presents a brief overview
of the Croatian railway sector, listing the main challenges
that it is currently facing, and identifying the main areas
of intervention for the development of a financially
sustainable sector, which should guide any thorough sector
reform program in the long-run. Sector governance challenges
are presented, outlining the sector's high dependency
on state support, its organizational weaknesses, and its
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Inappropriate regulation can influence
productivity performance by affecting incentives to invest
and adopt new technologies, as well as by directly curbing
competitive pressures. Results of a labor productivity
growth model for European countries suggest that improving
the regulatory environment -- proxied by the Worldwide
Governance Indicators regulatory quality indicator -- and
boosting effective exposure to competition through
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Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of
Macedonia has closed several gaps in gender inequalities,
particularly in education and health, but key disparities
persist in access to economic opportunities and agency,
particularly among certain ethnic groups. This report
provides an overview of gender disparities in several
outcomes related to human and physical endowments, access to
economic opportunities, and agency. In addition, it offers
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This economy profile presents the Doing
Business indicators for Moldova. In a series of annual
reports, Doing Business assesses regulations affecting
domestic firms in 189 economies and ranks the economies in
10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a
business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders.
This year's report data cover regulations measured from
June 2012 through May 2013. The report is the 11th edition
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This economy profile presents the Doing
Business indicators for Switzerland. In a series of annual
reports, Doing Business assesses regulations affecting
domestic firms in 189 economies and ranks the economies in
10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a
business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders.
This year's report data cover regulations measured from
June 2012 through May 2013. The report is the 11th edition
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This economy profile presents the Doing
Business indicators for Ukraine. In a series of annual
reports, Doing Business assesses regulations affecting
domestic firms in 189 economies and ranks the economies in
10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a
business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders.
This year's report data cover regulations measured from
June 2012 through May 2013. The report is the 11th edition
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In order to have both dynamic and better
balanced growth, Serbia needs to rely more on exports. In
the last decade, Serbia's growth has depended primarily
on demand that was fueled by excessive debt finance. In the
future, the Serbian economy would be better served by
increasing its reliance on exports as a new, potentially
powerful source of growth. Serbia's export share of
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is currently 25 percent, but
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The energy sector rapid assessment was
conducted by the World Bank for the Government of Romania,
as part of an advisory services program on climate change
and low carbon green growth. The objective of this
assessment is to identify climate change related investment
priorities and necessary implementation support for the
2014-2020 operational programs, with a view to achieving the
European Union (EU) 2020 targets and laying a foundation for
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Long-term economic growth is the key
driver for increasing the economic wellbeing of the
population, but the pattern and the incidence of growth also
matter. Economic growth narrowly based on certain enclave
sectors or benefitting small groups is neither socially
stable nor sustainable. Along these lines, the World Bank
recently revised its institutional strategy, establishing
two goals, namely: (i) ending extreme global poverty, the
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