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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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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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Methodology for a World Bank Human Capital Index

Kraay, Aart - 2018

This paper describes the methodology for a new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI). The HCI combines indicators of …

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Weak Instruments in Growth Regressions : Implications for Recent Cross-Country Evidence on Inequality and Growth

Kraay, Aart - 2017

This paper revisits four recent cross-country empirical studies on the effects of inequality on growth. All four studies report strongly significant negative effects, using the popular system generalized method of moments estimator that is frequently used in cross-country growth empirics. This...

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Predicting World Bank Project Outcome Ratings

Geli, Patricia - 2017

A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their … ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out … project. Such models perform better than self-assessments of project performance provided by World Bank staff during the …

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