The "rise of Asia" is something of a myth. During 1990-2005 China accounted for 28 percent of global growth, measured … at purchasing power parity (PPP). India accounted for 9 percent. The rest of developing Asia, with nearly a billion …

Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on … poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their … relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or villages. But …

This paper evaluates a primary school scholarship program in Cambodia with two different targeting mechanisms, one … based on poverty level and the other on baseline test scores ("merit"). Both targeting mechanisms increased enrollment and …

of "globalization." The author views the issue through both "macro" and "micro" empirical lenses. The macro lens uses … micro approaches cast doubt on some wide generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate. Additionally the micro …

types of innovation in Asia, including its impact on rice producers and consumers. It does so using the global economy … unskilled workers among Asia's poor. …

This paper examines opportunities for Sub-Saharan African countries to effectively participate in globalization … gain benefits from global network trade? Over the past 15 years Asia has become Africa's fastest growing export market … will not continue in the near future. The authors acknowledge the numerous caveats in Asia's growing interest in the …

-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC), Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin America (CACM, CAN, and MERCOSUR), estimating their impacts on …

and Central Asia. They use it to show that improved road network quality is robustly associated with higher intraregional …

This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held … on 1,000+ variables. This GDP-based approach outperforms all models that predict poverty rates directly, even when the …