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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106885
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The size and effectiveness of automatic fiscal stabilizers in Latin America
Suescun, Rodrigo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007
This paper measures the size of automatic fiscal revenue stabilizers and evaluates their role in Latin America. It introduces a relatively rich tax structure into a dynamic, stochastic, multi-sector small open economy inhabited by rule-of-thumb consumers (who consume their wages and do not save...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133413
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Global growth and distribution : are China and India reshaping the world?
Bussolo, Maurizio; Hoyos, Rafael E. De; Medvedev, Denis; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007
Over the past 20 years, aggregate measures of global inequality have changed little even if significant structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133433
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Gainers and losers from trade reform in Morocco
Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
small impacts on mean consumption and inequality in the aggregate. There are both gainers and losers and (contrary to past … inequality into a"vertical"component (between people at different pre-reform welfare levels) and a"horizontal"component (between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133434
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The effect of demographic changes on saving for life cycle motives in developing countries
Webb, Steven B.; Zia, Heidi S. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1989
If developing countries follow the same paths that industrialized countries have followed, saving for retirement will initially become more important as the population growth rate declines. To calculate the potential importance of life-cycle savings (saving for retirement), the paper presents a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133455
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Growth is good for the poor
Dollar, David; Kraay, Aart - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001
When average income rises, the average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately. This is a consequence of the strong empirical regularity that the share of income accruing to the bottom quintile does not vary systematically with average income. The authors document this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133470
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Global redistribution of income
Bourguignon, Francois; Levin, Victoria; Rosenblatt, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006
inequality faced by most countries. The question studied in this paper is: How do international policies on aid, trade, and … terms of changes in standard inequality measures, it is of some importance for the lowest decile of the world's income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133540
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Macroeconomic stability in developing countries - How much is enough?
Montiel, Peter; Serven, Luis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
In the 1990s macroeconomic policies improved in a majority of developing countries, but the growth dividend from such improvement fell short of expectations, and a policy agenda focused on stability turned out to be associated with a multiplicity of financial crises. The authors take a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133542
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Asset distribution, inequality, and growth
Deininger, Klaus; Olinto, Pedro - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000
With the recent resurgence of interest in equity, inequality, and growth, the possibility of a negative relationship … between inequality and economic growth, has received renewed interest in the literature. Faced with the prospect that high … levels of inequality may persist, and give rise to poverty traps, policymakers are paying more attention to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133545
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Poverty in Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia in the years of crisis, 1978-87
Milanovic, Branko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1990
The deep economic crisis that characterized Eastern Europe in the 1980's had a strong impact on average incomes of the population and on the percentage of people living below the poverty line. The situation deteriorated most sharply in Poland, where the percentage of the poor in total population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133550