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 …

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

percent). Since the impact of convergence on the supply side is much more muted, convergence puts upward pressure on world … food prices, partially offsetting a baseline trend toward falling world food prices to 2050 …

This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample …

as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …

, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …