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Emerging and developing economies : ten years after the Global Recession

Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 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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Understanding decisions made on asylum applications in host countries

Issifou, Ismael - 2020

Millions of forcibly displaced people apply for asylum every year facing uncertain outcomes. What can explain cross-country heterogeneity in these outcomes? This study provides estimates of the determinants of asylum admission policies in host countries using a bilateral panel data set covering...

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icio : economic analysis with inter-country input-output tables in Stata : World Development Report 2020 background paper

Belotti, Federico; Borin, Alessandro; Mancini, Michele - 2020

Several new statistical tools and analytical frameworks have been developed recently to measure countries' and sectors' involvement in global value chains. Such wealth of methodologies reflects that different empirical questions call for distinct accounting methods, along with different levels...

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Mobilization effects of multilateral development banks

Broccolini, Chiara; Lotti, Giulia; Maffioli, Alessandro; … - 2020

This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...

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Understanding the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Vorisek, Dana; Yu, Shu - 2020

Development Goal-related spending to have distinct effects. Recent costing studies by the World Bank Group have been developed to … minimize the drawbacks of earlier studies. The paper also briefly reviews how the World Bank Group engages with stakeholders on …

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Incidence of the digital economy and frictional unemployment : international evidence

Lederman, Daniel; Zouaidi, Marwane - 2020

This paper is the first to quantify the relationship between the incidence of the digital economy and long-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation between national unemployment rates and the incidence of...

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Falling short : a global survey of electricity tariff design

Foster, Vivien; Witte, Samantha - 2020

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of electricity pricing practices and tariff structure design in more than 60 developed and developing countries worldwide as of 2015-16. It evaluates the performance of electricity tariff designs according to a variety of important dimensions, notably...

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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, emerging and developing economies have experienced another wave of historically large and rapid debt accumulation. Similar past debt buildups have often ended in widespread...

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Prospects, risks, and vulnerabilities in emerging and developing economies : lessons from the past decade

Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020

Growth in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has generally disappointed since the 2009 global recession, with sizable forecast downgrades in most years. EMDEs continue to face downside risks to growth outlook over the next couple of years. These include heightened global policy...

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How does the World Bank influence the development policy priorities of low-income and lower-middle income countries?

Knack, Stephen F.; Parks, Bradley; Harutyunyan, Ani; … - 2020

This study investigates the World Bank's use of lending and non-lending instruments to affect the policy priorities of … developing countries. In a typical year, the World Bank lends more than USD 30 billion to its client countries. It also spends … countries has made it difficult for policymakers and scholars to understand which World Bank instruments are most useful for …

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