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 …

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 …

This paper examines within-sector resource misallocation in three Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, and … gains from efficient reallocation - above 80 percent for Indonesia and around 20 to 30 percent for Malaysia and Vietnam …

This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and … drivers follow their historical or recent trends, and under different scenarios of reform, using the World Bank Long …-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Under the business-as-usual baseline, Malaysia's GDP growth is expected to decline from 4.5 to 2 …

realization of hypothetical productivity gains, show that Malaysia's gross domestic product growth can potentially increase by 0 …