Guinea-Bissau : Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth

Guinea-Bissau is fighting a battle against poverty, low growth, and political fragility. Each of these areas presents both a formidable challenge as well as an opportunity for serious, long-lasting and much-needed change. Poverty is entrenched, ine...

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Main Author:	World Bank Group
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	poverty growth inequality natural resource management productivity investment climate institutions governance environmental sustainability fragility
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26557777/guinea-bissau-turning-challenges-opportunities-poverty-reduction-inclusive-growth-systematic-country-diagnostic-scd http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24695

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spelling	okr-10986-246952021-05-25T08:50:07Z Guinea-Bissau : Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth World Bank Group poverty growth inequality natural resource management productivity investment climate institutions governance environmental sustainability fragility Guinea-Bissau is fighting a battle against poverty, low growth, and political fragility. Each of these areas presents both a formidable challenge as well as an opportunity for serious, long-lasting and much-needed change. Poverty is entrenched, inequality is high and other human development outcomes are weak with many of the key indicators worsening over time. Fragility is intrinsically linked to low growth and lack of inclusiveness. Nonetheless, the country has potential for unlocking income-generating opportunities for growth. The diagnostics framework of this Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) is based on three interrelated themes: (i) inclusiveness of growth; (ii) overall economic growth and macro context; and (iii) sustainability risks, including the overarching issue of fragility. 2016-07-14T19:41:49Z 2016-07-14T19:41:49Z 2016-06 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26557777/guinea-bissau-turning-challenges-opportunities-poverty-reduction-inclusive-growth-systematic-country-diagnostic-scd http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24695 English en_US Systematic Country Diagnostic; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Country Focus :: Systematic Country Diagnostic Africa Guinea-Bissau
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description	Guinea-Bissau is fighting a battle against poverty, low growth, and political fragility. Each of these areas presents both a formidable challenge as well as an opportunity for serious, long-lasting and much-needed change. Poverty is entrenched, inequality is high and other human development outcomes are weak with many of the key indicators worsening over time. Fragility is intrinsically linked to low growth and lack of inclusiveness. Nonetheless, the country has potential for unlocking income-generating opportunities for growth. The diagnostics framework of this Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) is based on three interrelated themes: (i) inclusiveness of growth; (ii) overall economic growth and macro context; and (iii) sustainability risks, including the overarching issue of fragility.
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title	Guinea-Bissau : Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
title_short	Guinea-Bissau : Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
title_full	Guinea-Bissau : Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
title_fullStr	Guinea-Bissau : Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
title_full_unstemmed	Guinea-Bissau : Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
title_sort	guinea-bissau : turning challenges into opportunities for poverty reduction and inclusive growth
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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Guinea-Bissau : Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth

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