of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human … capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates …

and skewness of world gross domestic product growth are associated with ex-ante information of four risk factors: term … methodology also decomposes the variance and skewness of the predictive distribution accounting for the shares of selected risk … application to forecast world gross domestic product growth is used to test the Bayesian entropy methodology. Predictive variance …

-2018 may have caused a 1 percentage point decline in world trade growth. The paper also finds that the impact of policy …

A star is born -- Freeing the world of poverty -- How much farther can we see? -- Where to now? …

implications for food security in affected regions. An important step toward tackling the world's water quality challenge is … recognizing its scale. The world needs reliable, accurate, and comprehensive information so that policy makers can have new …

alleviation. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and …