not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in …, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the determinants of competition"--World Bank web …

strong evidence for bandwagon effects in humanitarian assistance. "--World Bank web site …

disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone …' approaches and first steps toward closing them. "--World Bank web site …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …. "--World Bank web site …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …

has been informed by work underway at the World Bank on trade facilitation over the past several years to catalogue data … provides insight into the type of new data that might be developed in the future. "--World Bank web site …