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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development database. The Services Trade Policy Database offers comparable information … the current Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development database, enabling a comparison of services policies … transparent framework. Building on these innovations will make it possible to identify global patterns of services trade policies …
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services in 2030) halve poverty impacts compared with the pessimistic baselines. Health impacts (malaria, diarrhea, and …
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This paper studies periods of prolonged contractions in output per capita in a sample of 145 countries from 1950 to 2014. Economic slumps are defined as abrupt interruptions of a period of growth by several regime switches. Slumps start with a sharp contraction along with a trend break, which is...
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This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand-side and supply-side factors on industrywide aggregate productivity. The paper focuses on the effects of three factors: (1) local market size, (2) the value of transportation costs...
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This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders … development investments in equipment, and training) highly concentrated in a few firms, and mature, exporter, and foreign …
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This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new … that production gradually favors conserving the earth's resources as gross domestic product increases, but increased … environmental outcomes across GDP. The analysis finds that average development is associated with an inverted 'U'-shape in …
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