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Growth Potential

The Emerging Bright Spot in Europe

Antonio Borges | Posted 07.18.2011 | Business
Read More: Markets, Economic Output, Current Account Deficits, Investment, Exports, Capital Inflows, Growth Potential, Boom-Bust Cycle, Credit Default Swaps, Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Policies, Structural Policies, Consumption, Asset Price Bubbles, Domestic Demand, Business News
Antonio Borges

it will take a while before most crisis-hit countries will be able to reclaim the economic output that was lost as a result of the crisis. But things are definitely going in the right direction.

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Unleashing Growth Potential in the Middle East

Masood Ahmed | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Transparency, Competition, Unemployment, Governance, Middle East, Long-Term Unemployment, Social Safety Nets, Growth Potential, Jobs, Job-Creating Growth, Youth Unemployment, Social Protection, Business News
Masood Ahmed

Recent popular protests in the Middle East and North Africa region, although likely to have a negative economic impact in the short run, might actually help to unleash the countries' long-term growth potential.

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Bridges to Growth, Not Roads to Nowhere: Scaling Up Infrastructure Investment in Low-Income Countries

Hugh Bredenkamp | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Infrastructure, Enabling Environment, Sustainable Investment, Private Investment, Investment Strategies, Growth Potential, Debt Sustainability, Capacity Building, Global Economic Crisis, Low-Income Countries, World News
Hugh Bredenkamp

For low-income countries, the absence of reliable infrastructure -- roads, railways, ports, but also power supply -- has become an increasingly binding constraint on growth.

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Ohio's Issue One: A Jobs Program America Should Notice

Don C. Reed | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Absentee Ballot, Industry, Ohio, Renewable Energy, Jobs, Growth Potential, Biomedicine, Voting, Politics News
Don C. Reed

Between now and May 4th, Ohioans will vote on Issue One: a spectacular jobs program. It is an urgent reason to go to the polls.

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