This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign …

Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more … partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES). In this paper we first describe this survey and also examine how …

rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices between 2000 and 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda. Distance is …

persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a …This paper presents estimates of world output growth from 1970 to 2000, the distribution of income among countries and … series of simulation exercises that attempt isolate the effect of particular country and regional experiences on world output …

poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …

unfavorable harvest shocks in other regions of the world significantly curtail domestic economic activity. The effects are much … agriculture in GDP or lower shares of non-agricultural trade in GDP; that is, characteristics that typically apply to low …

1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features necessary to study the problem, including an explicit agriculture … sector, endogenous fertility, directed technical change and fossil/renewable energy. We estimate the world economy is more … than one trillion dollars smaller, and world population more than 80 million smaller, than would have been the case without …