Maldives [electronic resource] : Identifying Opportunities and Constraints to Ending Poverty and Promoting Shared Prosperity.
Material type: TextSeries: Systematic Country Diagnostics | World Bank e-LibraryPublication details: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2015Subject(s): Access to Finance | Capital Markets | Climate Change | Commercial Banks | Competition | Credit | Debt | Debt Markets | Decision Making | Disasters | Drinking Water | Economic Development | Economic Growth | Economics | Economies of Scale | Elasticity of Demand | Environment | Environmental Economics & Policies | Equity | Expenditures | Finance and Financial Sector Development | Health | Health Monitoring & Evaluation | Health, Nutrition and Population | Incentives | Intergenerational Equity | International Comparisons | Knowledge | Land | Life Expectancy | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | Marketing | Measurement | Migration | Mortality | Natural Resources | Nutrition | Political Economy | Population Growth | Property Rights | Purchasing Power | Risk Management | Tariffs | Taxes | Trade | Transaction Costs | Unemployment | Violence | Wages | Waste | Waste Management | Weight | WorkersOnline resources: Click here to access online Abstract: Maldives is an island nation scattered in the Indian Ocean comprising 1,190 small coral islands of which 190 are inhabited by a local population of 341,000. Maldives' unique archipelagic coral island provides the country with an extremely rich and diverse marine ecological system. With more territorial sea than land, marine resources have played a vital role shaping the contours of economic development, with nature-based tourism being the key driver of economic growth and fisheries an important sector of employment for the local population. Maldives developed a successful high-end tourism sector, whose sizeable rents have been redistributed to the population to address its development challenges. This systematic country diagnostic for Maldives aims at identifying the most critical constraints and opportunities facing the country as it works towards promoting sustainable growth, reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. In addition to serving as a public good for the government, civil society, research and academic community, and local and international development partners, the findings of the SCD will be used as key inputs in the preparation of the WBG strategy, the Country Partnership Framework, which will outline how the Bank Group's engagement in Maldives can best contribute towards achieving the twin goals.Maldives is an island nation scattered in the Indian Ocean comprising 1,190 small coral islands of which 190 are inhabited by a local population of 341,000. Maldives' unique archipelagic coral island provides the country with an extremely rich and diverse marine ecological system. With more territorial sea than land, marine resources have played a vital role shaping the contours of economic development, with nature-based tourism being the key driver of economic growth and fisheries an important sector of employment for the local population. Maldives developed a successful high-end tourism sector, whose sizeable rents have been redistributed to the population to address its development challenges. This systematic country diagnostic for Maldives aims at identifying the most critical constraints and opportunities facing the country as it works towards promoting sustainable growth, reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. In addition to serving as a public good for the government, civil society, research and academic community, and local and international development partners, the findings of the SCD will be used as key inputs in the preparation of the WBG strategy, the Country Partnership Framework, which will outline how the Bank Group's engagement in Maldives can best contribute towards achieving the twin goals.
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