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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 …

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Policy uncertainty, trade, and global value chains : some facts, many questions

Constantinescu, Cristina; Mattoo, Aaditya; Ruta, Michele - 2019

-2018 may have caused a 1 percentage point decline in world trade growth. The paper also finds that the impact of policy …

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Multidimensional connectivity : benefits, risks, and policy implications for Europe and Central Asia

Gould, David; Kenett, Dror Y.; Panterov, Georgi - 2018

International connections through trade, foreign direct investment, migration, the Internet, and other channels are critical for the transmission of knowledge and growth and form macroeconomic linkages. But how much knowledge is transmitted to a country is not only the result of the overall...

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How much does reducing inequality matter for global poverty?

Lakner, Christoph; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Negre, Mario; … - 2019

countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …

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Does rainfall matter for economic growth? : evidence from global sub-national data (1990-2014)

Damania, Richard; Desbureaux, Sébastien; Zaveri, Esha - 2019

Much micro-econometric evidence suggests that precipitation has wide ranging impacts on vital economic indicators such as agricultural yields, human capital, and even conflict. And yet paradoxically most macro-econometric evidence (especially in the climate economy literature) finds that...

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Productivity growth : patterns and determinants across the world

Kim, Young Eun; Loayza, Norman - 2019

This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample …

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Cities of workers, children, or seniors? : age structure and economic growth in a global cross-section of cities

Jedwab, Remi; Pereira, Daniel; Roberts, Mark - 2019

variety of historical and contemporary sources, it shows that there exists marked variation in the age structure of the world …

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Measuring human capital

Angrist, Noam; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; … - 2019

Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …

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Relationship between energy intensity and economic growth : new evidence from a multi-country multi-sector data set

Deichmann, Uwe; Reuter, Anna; Vollmer, Sebastian; Zhang, Fan - 2018

This paper revisits the relationship between energy intensity and economic growth, using a flexible piecewise linear regression model. Based on a panel data set of 137 economies during 1990-2014, the analysis identifies a threshold effect of income growth on energy intensity change: although...

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Inequality and economic growth : the role of initial income

Brückner, Markus; Lederman, Daniel - 2018

-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …

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