economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures … market-state balance, macroeconomic management, globalization, development financing, and public spending. On the one hand … should largely reinforce the Post-Washington Consensus on development that has emerged over the past decade -- a world view …

of elderly in the world, and below-replacement fertility rates since at least the 1980s. The typology helps identify … development policy priorities for countries in different stages of demographic transition, and opportunities through globalization …

may threaten the very model of labor intensive industrialization and a backlash against globalization that may reduce …

This paper discusses the theoretical arguments in favor of and against economic globalization and, with a view to … ascertaining whether Latin America may be able to capture the globalization upside, examines the trends and salient features of … Latin America's globalization as compared with that of Southeast Asia. The paper focuses on trade and financial integration …

and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys …

Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally … mobilized if the world is to succeed in meeting its targets. Thus, the potential for Islamic finance to play a role in …

Bureaucratic reform is a priority of donor organizations, including the World Bank, but is notoriously difficult to … robust support for this argument. From a sample of 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, the paper …