Bangladesh has achieved robust economic growth over the past 10 years, with real GDP growing by more than 6 percent on … average each year. This paper investigates whether the country will be able to maintain such high levels of growth going … forward. A simple growth model calibrated to the Bangladesh economy is used to analyze various growth scenarios. The main …

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have …

This paper reviews the evolving literature that links financial development, financial crises, and economic growth in … -- run growth and another studying its impact on volatility and crisis?has given way to a more nuanced approach that analyzes … trade-off between higher economic growth and higher crisis risk; and its main conclusion is that, for at least middle …

This paper addresses two main questions: (1) What are the binding constraints to Guinea's economic growth? and (2) What … would it take to accelerate growth in the country? Using the growth diagnostic approach, the paper finds three binding … constraints to growth: (i) lack of good infrastructure (roads and electricity), (ii) low access to finance, and (iii) poor …