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scenario of extreme economic distress, using the World Bank's Enterprises Surveys. Under the assumption that firms have no …
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countries. This leads to incorrect measures of total factor productivity growth. Using data on natural resources from the World … total factor productivity growth across all country income classes and regions of the world when compared with the … volatile over time in the great majority of countries compared with the traditional approach. The availability of World Bank …
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Much micro-econometric evidence suggests that precipitation has wide ranging impacts on vital economic indicators such as agricultural yields, human capital, and even conflict. And yet paradoxically most macro-econometric evidence (especially in the climate economy literature) finds that...
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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 …
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Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …
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For centuries states have engaged in collecting data to serve various interests. In modern times, a data gap has emerged between developing and developed economies, with the latter having more advanced data systems. The authors explore the effects of data transparency on long-run growth for a...
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