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Infrastructure and employment creation in the Middle East and North Africa /
This study assesses the potential for job creation through infrastructure investment in the Middle East and North Africa. The region has experience in making the most of infrastructure investments, but maintaining and spreading the momentum in infrastructure will be important to support future growt...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington D.C. :
World Bank,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Infrastructure.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study assesses the potential for job creation through infrastructure investment in the Middle East and North Africa. The region has experience in making the most of infrastructure investments, but maintaining and spreading the momentum in infrastructure will be important to support future growth and job creation. To do so, policymakers will have to recognize that there are large differences in initial conditions across the region in terms of starting stock, needs, fiscal commitments, private sector participation and job creation potential. Overall, the region's infrastructure needs through 2020 are quite large and estimated at about 106 billion dollars per year or 6.9 percent of the annual regional GDP. In designing country specific solutions, governments will have to tackle predictable challenges: the governance of job creation, the proper targeting and fiscal costs assessment of subsidies needed to create jobs, the design and fiscal costs of the (re)training programs needed and the expectations on the job creation effects of infrastructure. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 84 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780821396667 0821396668 082139665X 9780821396650 |