How to entrench hard-won gains, increase resilience to shocks, and improve growth performance to reduce poverty? As Central America moves forward in regaining macroeconomic stability, these are the challenges. This study analyzes Central America's real, fiscal, monetary, and financial sector...

Introduction and overview Jean A.P. Clément -- Sustaining growth takeoffs : lessons from Mozambique Jean A.P. Clément and Shanaka J. Peiris -- Halving the poverty rate by 2015 Louise Fox, Rui Benfica, and Melissa Sekkel -- Sustaining growth in the long term Sam Jones -- Monetary and financial...

Introduction -- Review of macro-micro approaches for evaluating the distributional impacts of macroeconomic reforms [Moataz El-Said] -- Distributional impacts of indirect tax and public pricing reforms: a review of methods and empirical evidence [David Coady] -- Analyzing the impact of trade...

This book describes the reforms needed to move small middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa to advanced-economy status. The result of intense discussions with public officials in the countries covered, the book blends rigorous theory, econometrics, and practitioners' insights to come up...

Latin America: rising to new challenges / Dora Iakova, Sebastián Sosa, and Alejandro Werner -- Potential growth in Latin America / Sebastián Sosa, Evridiki Tsounta, and Hye Sun Kim -- After the boom: commodity prices and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean / Bertrand Gruss --...