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David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group, commemorated the 75th anniversary of the 1944 conference held in … Bretton Woods, New Hampshire which led to the creation of the World Bank. He spoke about key historical events and development …
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World Bank Group President David Malpass spoke of the steps the Group is taking to provide unprecedented financing to … credit on May 1, 2020. He highlighted about how the IMF Managing Director and World Bank championed the debt initiative, and …
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James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the Bank's focus on the social sector. Since the … World War II were met, the more recent and continuing focus has been on development and on the issues of poverty and the …
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The World Bank Group (WBG) has long recognized that the restoration and preservationof cultural heritage, urban … from the development experience of Kyoto City, the imperial capital of Japan for more than a thousand years and home to 14 … well conserved UNESCO World Heritage sites and many historic districts …
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This paper establishes a simple theory-based real exchange rate (RER) Misalignment Index for countries around the world …
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This paper examines the pros and cons of gradual versus big-bang approaches toward devaluations. It presents original empirical evidence regarding output, consumption, investment and trade balances associated with gradual and big-bang devaluation episodes. It finds that big-bang devaluations are...
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world. As tapering talk evolves into actual withdrawal of quantitative easing in the United States, and as the Euro Zone …
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regime classification, whereas the data for remittances and all other variables are from the World Bank's World Development …
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This semiannual report examines the short and medium-term challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as the external factors that were instrumental in the region’s recent performance recede. In particular, we address the role of the exchange rate as a counter-cyclical policy tool to...
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What sorts of conditions make some countries more prone to corruption than the others? This is an important question for understanding how corruption arises and how to combat it. The present paper attempts to answer this question by exploring the link between the size of the country and...
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