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What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
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This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample …
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the growth and size of the shadow economy. If the shadow economy increases by one percent the annual growth rate of the …
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the growth and size of the shadow economy. If the shadow economy increases by one percent the annual growth rate of the …
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contributions are the driving forces of the shadow economy. If the shadow economy increases by one percent the growth rate of the …
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Estimations of the shadow economies for 120 countries, including developing, Eastern Europe and Central Asian and high income OECD countries over 1999 to 2006 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2004/05 in 76 developing countries is 35.5%, in...
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"Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
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