, public expenditure, real exchange rate changes, gross domestic product growth relative to the rest of the world, trade …

financial flows. They have generated two opposing views of the current situation of the world economy: on one side, a prudent … optimistic view suggests that global imbalances are not anomalies but simply the predictable outcome of a world with increasingly … countries in the world rebalance their economies to avoid the potentially painful cost of disruption and adjustment. The latter …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …

quality, social distance, and economic indicators using data from the World Values Survey. The results obtained indicate that …

regulatory, supervisory authorities, are now available to researchers, and policymakers around the world. The data cover such …

The authors address two questions: What happens to stock market size, liquidity, volatility, and integration with world …