a third of the developing world has been able to escape the procyclicality trap. Yet, little is known about the evidence …

world, inequalities reduced substantially. The regional Gini coefficient for per capita income, for instance, decreased by … distribution. Accordingly, poverty in LAC decreased by more than 16 percentage points within a single decade, from 41.6 percent in … 2003 to 25.3 percent in 2012. Furthermore, extreme poverty was cut in half, from 24.5 percent to 12.3 percent (Figure 1 …

Presenting the proceedings of the May 2003 World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), the … volume imparts new research findings and discussions on key policy issues related to poverty reduction by eminent scholars … and practitioners from around the world. Topics include Fostering Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth; Challenges of …

. This report uses the benefit of 20/20 hindsight to evaluate the World Bank ' s assistance to 26 countries in the ECA Region … reviews World Bank assistance to the transition economies and some of the evaluative evidence on its outcome. Five themes were …