UID:
almafu_9958111990602883
Format:
xv, 50 pages :
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illustrations ;
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26 cm.
ISBN:
1-283-94899-0
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0-8213-9760-5
Series Statement:
A World Bank study
Content:
Azerbaijan experienced a "golden age" in the last decade, during which the average growth rate reached record high levels and poverty decreased significantly. On average, the economy grew by 15.3 percent per year in real terms during this period. As a result, poverty declined dramatically from 49.6 percent in 2001 to 15.8 percent in 2008. This study takes an inclusive growth approach to investigating the ways in which the country's high growth was translated into significant poverty reduction. The report first investigates the sources of growth in Azerbaijan with an emphasis on sectoral compos
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; Chapter 1 Recent Growth Experience in Azerbaijan; Figures; Figure 1.1: Real GDP Growth and Expenditure Shares of GDP; Boxes; Box 1.1: What Is the Inclusive Growth Approach?; Decomposition of Growth; Figure 1.2: Savings, Investment, and FDI; Growth, Productivity, and Structural Transformation; Tables; Table 1.1: Sectoral Growth and Shares; Figure 1.3: Decomposition of Growth; Figure 1.4: Productivity Decomposition; Figure 1.5: Correlation between Changes in Relative Productivity and Employment Shares, 2005-09
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Chapter 2 How Did Growth Help to Alleviate Poverty?Figure 2.1: Broad Impact of Growth; Transfers Played a Leading Role in Reducing Poverty; Figure 2.2: Transfers Per Capita (2005 AZN); Table 2.1: Coverage of the Population by Social Transfer Schemes; Higher Labor Income Also Reduced Poverty; Figure 2.3: Coverage of the Population by Social Transfers by Consumption Deciles; Figure 2.4: Real Wage and Productivity Relations across Sectors (2005-10); Table 2.2: Growth in Average Nominal Wages; Chapter 3 Inclusiveness of Growth: Key Characteristics
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Sustainability of the Current Poverty Alleviation StrategyFigure 3.1: Oil Revenues and Transfers; Figure 3.2: Projection of Oil and Gas Production; Figure 3.3: Simulating Oil Fund Assets; Box 3.1: Fiscal Sustainability and Oil Fund Transfers; Table B3.1.1: Government Revenues and Expenditures (% of GDP); Table B3.1.2: Baseline and Crisis Scenarios and Their Fiscal Implications; Growth and Inclusion; Figure 3.4: Reduction in Poverty, 2001-08; Employment Creation; Figure 3.5: Reduction in Poverty in Baku and Other Urban Areas; Figure 3.6: Labor Force Participation; Figure 3.7: Employment Ratios
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Figure 3.8: Youth Employment and School EnrollmentFigure 3.9: Labor Market Characteristics of Workers Aged 15-64; Figure 3.10: Profile of the Unemployed; Figure 3.11: Poverty Rates by Employment Status and by Sector; Table 3.1: Percentages of Rural and Urban Poor Who Are Employed, Unemployed, Inactive (2008); Chapter 4 Challenges to Further Inclusive Growth; Figure 4.1: Growth, Employment Elasticity, and Employment Share by Sector; The Need for Diversification; Table 4.1: Employment Elasticities by Sector; Figure 4.2: Openness Indicators in Azerbaijan and Comparable Countries
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Figure 4.3: Trend in OpennessFigure 4.4: Trade Costs in Azerbaijan and Comparable Countries; Figure 4.5: Output Gap Fluctuations; Figure 4.6: Oil Export Revenues and the REER; Figure 4.7: Lagged REER (1 year) and Non-oil Exports; Figure 4.8: Firms' Perception of the Biggest Obstacle to Doing Business; Challenges to Growing Jobs; Figure 4.9: Education Profile of the Richest and Poorest Quartiles; Figure 4.10: Comparison of Gross Enrollment Rates, 2010; Table 4.2: Skills of Graduates versus the Structure of Employment (2009); Table 4.3: Regional Net Enrollment Rates
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Table 4.4: The Tax Burden Impact of STR on Firms, a Simulation
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-9759-1
Language:
English
URL:
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-9759-6
