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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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Economic growth: sources, trends, and cycles
Loayza, Norman (contributor); Soto, Raimundo (contributor) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001732540
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938091
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Price levels and economic growth : making sense of revisions to data on real incomes ; a comment
Inklaar, Robert - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 59 (2013) 4, pp. 614-622
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The informal sector and economic growth
Loayza, Norman - 1994
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Equity and development : revisiting the 2006 World Development Report
Ravallion, Martin - 2016
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Benchmarking Global Poverty Reduction
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
progress. The ambitious target would require about a 1 percentage point higher growth rate for the gross domestic product of … expected growth rates but at the lower level of inequality in 1999 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395490
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Bailing Out The World's Poorest
Ravallion, Martin - 2008
While the 2008 financial crisis is global in nature, it is likely to have heterogeneous welfare impacts within the developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts for some of those affected, notably through the...
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