The world is currently still struggling with the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression …

Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics: country where they live and social class … income position (percentile in world income distribution) is explained by only these two pieces of information. Mean country …

International mutual funds are one of the main channels for capital flows to emerging economies. Although mutual funds … strategies. The authors provide an overview of mutual fund activity in emerging markets. First, they describe international … than domestic U.S. funds and world funds. When investigating abroad, U.S. mutual funds invest more in equity than in bonds …

The actual distribution of world income across countries is extremely unequal, much higher than the within country … inequality faced by most countries. The question studied in this paper is: How do international policies on aid, trade, and … factor movements affect the international distribution of income? To begin to answer this question, the authors calculate the …

as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power … along the value chain) also affect supply. This paper briefly reviews a number of factors that may distort international … absence of policy -- generate international spillovers that call for the negotiation of international policy disciplines …

The simmering sovereign debt crisis in the Euro Zone represents a looming threat to the recovery of the world economy …

This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy loans on the ease of doing business. It finds that … when combined with an International Monetary Fund assistance program. The results are robust to several specifications and … World Bank is more relevant than the amount of resources invested in the project …

trade-offs of their national policies on capital flows. National policy measures must be complemented by international … conducted in coordination with international partners …