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A socioeconomic disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

D'Souza, Ritika; Gatti, Roberta; Kraay, Aart - 2019

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

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Global recessions

Kose, M. Ayhan; Sugawara, Naotaka; Terrones, Marco E. - 2020

The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …

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Can this time be different? : policy options in times of rising debt

Kose, M. Ayhan; Nagle, Peter; Ohnsorge, Franziska; … - 2020

Episodes of debt accumulation have been a recurrent feature of the global economy over the past fifty years. Since 2010 …

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Debt and financial crises

Koh, Wee Chian; Kose, M. Ayhan; Nagle, Peter; Ohnsorge, … - 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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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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Emerging and developing economies : ten years after the Global Recession

Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2020

, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the …

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Methodology for a World Bank Human Capital Index : background paper to the 2019 World Development Report

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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Global economic prospects : broad-based upturn, but for how long?

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - World Bank Group - 2018

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A Decade After the Global Recession : Lessons and Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2019

economy and, especially, emerging market and developing economies, have suffered a decade of weak growth despite unprecedented …

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

Kraay, Aart - 2015

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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