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insurance markets. Based on 20 years of insurance premium data from 180 countries, and a similar wealth of data on institutions … and financial market development, the paper presents important correlates of insurance market development. Although the … analysis cannot identify which factors directly cause insurance market growth, the results suggest that interventions aimed at …
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role of nontraditional delivery models, for example, branchless banking, and actors, for example, nonbank lending …
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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 Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
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This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to...
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