Serbia’s New Growth Agenda : Forging a New Future

Serbia’s New Growth Agenda : Forging a New Future

Although current growth rates are improving incomes in Serbia, they are not bringing the country closer to average living standards in the European Union fast enough. To reach European levels of prosperity, Serbia must embrace a new, ambitious agen...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
ECONOMIC GROWTH
STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
SKILLED LABOR
PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
COMPETITION POLICY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/864161585632337214/Serbia-s-New-Growth-Agenda-Forging-a-New-Future
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spelling okr-10986-335642021-05-25T09:35:01Z Serbia’s New Growth Agenda : Forging a New Future World Bank ECONOMIC GROWTH STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES INVESTMENT CLIMATE SKILLED LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT COMPETITION POLICY Although current growth rates are improving incomes in Serbia, they are not bringing the country closer to average living standards in the European Union fast enough. To reach European levels of prosperity, Serbia must embrace a new, ambitious agenda for growth. Serbia can become a fast-growing, sophisticated modern economy, driven by its private sector, if it maintains the hard-won gains of macroeconomic stability and advances the transformation in the following seven areas: boosting investment, financing growing firms, skilling workers, raising productivity, expanding exports, enabling business, and unleashing competition. Reforms will at once promote growth and build needed resilience for the coming period and beyond. The challenge is not only economic. It requires courageous, decisive, and bold political commitment as well as strengthening government effectiveness and accountabil 2020-04-09T20:25:42Z 2020-04-09T20:25:42Z 2020 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/864161585632337214/Serbia-s-New-Growth-Agenda-Forging-a-New-Future http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33564 English Country Economic Memorandum; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Country Economic Memorandum Europe and Central Asia Serbia
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topic ECONOMIC GROWTH
STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
SKILLED LABOR
PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
COMPETITION POLICY
spellingShingle ECONOMIC GROWTH
STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
SKILLED LABOR
PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
COMPETITION POLICY
World Bank
Serbia’s New Growth Agenda : Forging a New Future
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description Although current growth rates are improving incomes in Serbia, they are not bringing the country closer to average living standards in the European Union fast enough. To reach European levels of prosperity, Serbia must embrace a new, ambitious agenda for growth. Serbia can become a fast-growing, sophisticated modern economy, driven by its private sector, if it maintains the hard-won gains of macroeconomic stability and advances the transformation in the following seven areas: boosting investment, financing growing firms, skilling workers, raising productivity, expanding exports, enabling business, and unleashing competition. Reforms will at once promote growth and build needed resilience for the coming period and beyond. The challenge is not only economic. It requires courageous, decisive, and bold political commitment as well as strengthening government effectiveness and accountabil
format Report
author World Bank
author_facet World Bank
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title Serbia’s New Growth Agenda : Forging a New Future
title_short Serbia’s New Growth Agenda : Forging a New Future
title_full Serbia’s New Growth Agenda : Forging a New Future
title_fullStr Serbia’s New Growth Agenda : Forging a New Future
title_full_unstemmed Serbia’s New Growth Agenda : Forging a New Future
title_sort serbia’s new growth agenda : forging a new future
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/864161585632337214/Serbia-s-New-Growth-Agenda-Forging-a-New-Future
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