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South Africa: weaker growth due to a contraction in manufacturing
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June 2013
Summary: Financial?markets?upbeat;?real?economies?sluggish
Subdued?global?growth?in?2013?and?moderate?pick-up?expected?for?2014
Unemployment?remains?a?key?policy?challenge
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An integrated strategy for sustainable cities
by?Alex Julca and Willem van der Geest?
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Limited impact of monetary policy on domestic credit in Eastern Europe
Algeria?s oil exports and implications for its fiscal position
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Uncertainty and the outlook for the euro area
World Economic Situat
May 2013
Summary:? Commodity?prices?decline?as?global?trade?remains?weak
The?ECB?cuts?interest?rates,?returning?to?conventional?monetary?policy
Economic?momentum?weakens?in?East?Asia;?another?interest?
International support to the sustainable development of SIDS has been on the international policy agenda for a long time, whereas challenges are intensifying. Stabilizing global economic and financial markets and international measures to reduce climate changes are indispensable to reduce vulnerabilities of SIDS, as is scaling-up of existing support measures at the national level in areas such as climate change adaptation. This paper also performs cluster and other statistical analyses of SIDS vulnerabilities to explore new approaches to SIDS support. The heterogeneity among SIDS is substantial even if only sub-groups of SIDS are considered. Therefore, a differentiated approach has merits,…
A slowdown in US labour productivity growth: cyclical or secular?
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