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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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Understanding economic growth in Ghana in comparative perspective

Geiger, Michael; Trenczek, Jan; Wacker, Konstantin - 2019

Ghana has experienced a decade of solid and exceptionally high growth. Between 2005 and 2015, income nearly doubled. This paper analyzes the factors driving this impressive growth performance, using tools such as structural change decompositions and growth regressions. For the comparative...

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Does culture matter for development?

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From farms to factories and firms : structural transformation and labor productivity growth in Malaysia

Rahman, Amanina Abdur; Schmillen, Achim - 2020

productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that … take account of the static and dynamic efficiency gains from labor reallocation, it documents that Malaysia has undergone … between-sector reallocation of labor to growth in output per capita in Malaysia has been relatively low. Accordingly, together …

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