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  Institutions, public and private sector partnership, and the development of strategic industry in Oman

  Korea Development Institute, 2009

  Oman’s national development strategy envisages the development of a dynamic private sector that will undertake a leading role in the nation’s development.
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  System reform of public finance for sustainable growth in the Omani economy

  Korea Development Institute, 2013

  Omani economy, which heavily depends on depletable, mineral resources, is facing the challenge of making itself more diversified and sustainable. To achieve this goal, securing fiscal stability, improving the strategic budget resource allocation, and ensuring efficiency of individual public expenditure projects and programs are of central importance (Chatper 1).
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  Evidence and gaps in evidence on the principle political economy constraints and opportunities to successful investment in inclusive agribusiness in Asia

  Evidence on Demand, 2016

  This report pays particular reference to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kyrgyz Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Tajikistan. The purpose is to inform a more detailed call down piece of work for DFID to scope the potential establishment of one or more investment platforms through which it would deploy investment capital in order to catalyse private investment in south and central Asia.
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  Integrating gender perspectives in evaluating the efficiency of COFI: the case of credit cooperatives in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  Over the last several years, a number of studies on group-based lending programs have examined the issue of empowering women through greater access to finance.
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  Trade reforms, unemployment, household income and welfare: the Philippine case

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  The Philippine government pursued major structural economic reforms in the last one and a half decades. One of the sectors where reforms were vigorously pursued is the foreign trade, in which policies of tariff reduction, simplification of tariff structure, and “tariffication” of quantitative restrictions were implemented.
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  Analysis of trade reforms, income inequality and poverty using microsimulation approach: the case of the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  This paper uses a CGE mircosimulation approach to analyze the effects of tariff reduction on poverty and income inequality. The approach relaxes the representative household assumption in the traditional CGE modeling by replacing household groups with individual households.
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  Poverty and access to microfinance with gender dimension

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  Although admittedly still small relative to the size of the entire domestic financial market, the Philippine microfinance market has been developing quite rapidly in the last few years.
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  The output gap and its role in inflation-targeting in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  The output gap is the difference between the economy’s actual output and potential output, with the latter being the level of prod uction consistent with existing labor, capital and technology. There are several key issues surrounding the output gap in the context of inflation-targeting.
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  State of competition in the insurance industry: selected Asian countries

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  The 1997 Asian financial crisis highlighted the danger of firms’ heavy reliance on bank financing and led to the conclusion that Asian countries should develop capital markets as alternative sources of financing.
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  Analyzing the impact of Philippine tariff reform on unemployment, distribution and poverty using CGE-microsimulation approach

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  Tariff reduction leads to higher imports and exports. Although domestic production for the local market declines, the overall production improves. These are due to the substitution and scale effects of tariff reduction.

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