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Cambodia has recorded both rapid economic growth and macroeconomic stability in recent decades despite (or thanks to) high levels of dollarization. Previous studies on dollarization in Cambodia have largely focused on examining its causes and estimating seigniorage losses. As an attempt to...
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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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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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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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For centuries states have engaged in collecting data to serve various interests. In modern times, a data gap has emerged between developing and developed economies, with the latter having more advanced data systems. The authors explore the effects of data transparency on long-run growth for a...
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A star is born -- Freeing the world of poverty -- How much farther can we see? -- Where to now? …
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implications for food security in affected regions. An important step toward tackling the world's water quality challenge is … recognizing its scale. The world needs reliable, accurate, and comprehensive information so that policy makers can have new …
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alleviation. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and …
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Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to …
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We revisit the relevance of the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA)against growth …
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