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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics
Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228661
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Labor market effects of demographic shifts and migration in OECD countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Kone, Zovanga L.; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002643
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How mass immigration affects countries with weak economic institutions : a natural experiment in Jordan
Nowrasteh, Alex; Forrester, Andrew C.; Blondin, Cole - 2019
To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008388
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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … distributional characteristics. Using years of life as a welfare metric yields a single parameter that captures the underlying trade …-off between lives and livelihoods: how many PYs have the same welfare cost as one LY. Taking an agnostic view of this parameter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241367
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Iraq's universal public distribution system : utilization and impacts during displacement
Phadera, Lokendra; Sharma, Dhiraj; Wai-Poi, Matthew - 2020
are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced by forced displacement. This paper examines whether Iraq's Public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229133
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Returns to low-skilled international migration : evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia migration lottery program
Mobarak, Mushfiq; Sharif, Iffath A.; Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2020
Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229771
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An optimal rice policy for Sierra Leone : balancing consumer and producer welfare
Graham, Errol George; Tchale, Hardwick; Ndione, Mamadou - 2020
, simulations suggest that an optimal policy path to balance consumer and producer welfare and meet the higher societal objective of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297240
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Impact of the West African Ebola epidemic on agricultural production and rural welfare : evidence from Liberia
De La Fuente, Alejandro; Jacoby, Hanan; Lawin, … - 2019
mobilization for planting and harvest, thereby reducing rice area planted as well as rice yields. Household welfare, measured by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051875
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Measuring the full extent of fiscal losses and gains
Coulibaly, Mohamed; Sanoh, Aly - 2019
fiscal system is improving the welfare of the population: only 33.2 percent of the population has become poorer due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051912
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Measuring natural risks in the Philippines : socioeconomic resilience and wellbeing losses
Walsh, Brian; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2019
Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure of disaster severity. Using a new,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004799