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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics

Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020

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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Productivity growth : patterns and determinants across the world

Kim, Young Eun; Loayza, Norman - 2019

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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Are the world's poorest being left behind?

Ravallion, Martin - In: Journal of economic growth 21 (2016) 2, pp. 139-164

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The spread of manufacturing to the poor periphery : 1870 - 2007

Bénétrix, Agustín S.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - In: Open economies review 26 (2015) 1, pp. 1-37

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Economic growth: sources, trends, and cycles

Loayza, Norman (contributor); Soto, Raimundo (contributor) - 2002

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What might explain today's conflicting narratives on global inequality?

Ravallion, Martin - 2018

How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one often hears? This paper reviews the arguments and evidence. A number of concerns about the underlying data are identified, with biases going in both directions. Conceptual...