Azerbaijan is a secular, majority-Shiite, oil and gas-rich country whose per-capita income quadrupled in real terms during the period 2004-10. While rising incomes have reduced poverty, steps towards a more secure, diversified economy are held back by a public sector that rests on vested interests, patronage-based incentive structures, and ingrained patterns of behavior that include significant rent extraction, particularly from the non-oil economy...
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2011/12/01
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Document de travail (série numérotée)
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66768
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2012/02/10
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Disclosed
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Azerbaijan - World Bank country-level engagement on governance and anticorruption
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Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs