transactions take place. The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during …

integrating financially with the rest of the world since the 1990s, using bilateral data on portfolio investments, syndicated bank …, theregion is increasingly more connected with itself and with the rest of the world, even relative to GDP. Second, although …

In much of the developing world, the demand for high frequency quality household data for poverty monitoring and …-to-survey imputation that makes use of small area estimation techniques. In addition to a standard base model, separate models are …

World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along with correlations between the summary measures and macroeconomic …

Between 1999 and 2008, world oil prices more than quadrupled in real terms. For oil importers, vulnerability to oil … domestic product. Oil intensity fell in more than half the countries in every income group and in every region of the world … pass-through to consumers of increases in world prices of gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas between …

countries around the world currently use some form of interest rate caps on loans -- all with varying degrees of effects …