performance that a country could achieve in a policy-relevant horizon. The paper uses a panel of 142 countries for the period 2005 …

and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and reviews the recent empirical …

relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …

Arrangements data set and firm-level productivity from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys. The paper highlights the following …

Many firms in the developing world -- including a majority of micro, small, and medium enterprises -- operate in the …

Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable …

an index of "service exports sophistication" to document this phenomenon. Panel data estimations indicate a positive …

This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 … high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence …

This paper summarizes the World Bank's approach to identifying parameters for key equations in its macro structural … infeasible or yield unstable estimates. To identify parameters that could be used in such cases, a cointegrating panel approach … calibration or Bayesian estimation, because the functional forms imposed in the panel are consistent with those used in the macro …