liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves … cut applied tariffs, particularly on agricultural imports. "--World Bank web site …

"The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …) with respect to the level of development. "--World Bank web site …

, affect the transformation of research and development into patents. "--World Bank web site …

subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run trade …. "--World Bank web site …

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 …