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Arm's-Length Trade : A Source of Post-Crisis Trade Weakness

Lakatos, Csilla - 2017

Trade growth has slowed sharply since the global financial crisis. U.S. trade data highlights that arm's-length trade--trade between unaffiliated firms--accounts disproportionately for the overall post-crisis trade slowdown. This is partly because arm's-length trade depends more heavily than...

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Cheap but flighty : how global imbalances create financial fragility

Ahnert, Toni; Perotti, Enrico C. - 2015

We analyze how a wealth shift to emerging countries may lead to instability in developed countries. Investors exposed to expropriation risk are willing to pay a safety premium to invest in countries with good property rights. Domestic intermediaries compete for such cheap funding by carving out...

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Governance Matters VIII : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2009

This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism,...

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The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

Chen, Shaohua - 2017

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …

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Worldwide Governance Indicators Project : Answering the Critics

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2016

The Worldwide Governance Indicators, reporting estimates of six dimensions of governance for over 200 countries between 1996 and 2005, have become widely used among policymakers and academics. They have also attracted some explicit written criticisms. In this short paper the authors synthesize...

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Governance Matters V : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators for 1996-2005

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2016

The authors report on the latest version of the worldwide governance indicators, covering 213 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance from 1996 until end-2005: voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory...

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A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

Dsouza, Ritika - 2019

the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index …

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Emerging and Developing Economies : Ten Years after the Global Recession

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020

Although emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) weathered the global recession a decade ago relatively well, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the room for monetary and fiscal policies to respond to...

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Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics

Artuc, Erhan - 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 …

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Debt and Financial Crises

Koh, Wee Chian - 2020

Emerging market and developing economies have experienced recurrent episodes of rapid debt accumulation over the past fifty years. This paper examines the consequences of debt accumulation using a three-pronged approach: an event study of debt accumulation episodes in 100 emerging market and...

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