This volume consists of papers presented at the Korea-World Bank High Level Conference on Post-Crisis Growth and Development.The volume is organized as follows. In chapters one and two, II SaKong, chairman of the Presidential Committee for the Group of Twenty (G-20) Seoul Summit, and Ngozi...

The World Bank Group in 2013 made the elimination of extreme poverty by 2030 a central institutional focus and purpose. This paper, based on an evaluation conducted by the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group, examines how, and how well, the Bank uses feedback loops to enhance...

This paper analyzes the historical evolution of the international monetary system in the context of the rising role of developing countries in the world economy and the emerging multi-polar growth setting. It evaluates the stability of the current"non-system"and how the global economic context...

In response to the Great Recession of 2008, many national governments implemented fiscal stimuli packages in 2009 and 2010 to prevent further declines in aggregate demand and to jump start their economic recovery. Where subnational governments responded with fiscal contraction, as in the United...

The authors argue that, at the broad level of global analysis, there are good reasons to be optimistic about the 1990s. First, there are favorable supply side developments in many of the high income countries. Second, considerable scope exists for a recovery of private consumption and investment...

Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and significant increases in income inequality in many developed and developing countries raise serious concerns about the continuation of this trend into the...

This volume consists of papers presented at the Korea-World Bank High Level Conference on Post-Crisis Growth and Development.The volume is organized as follows. In chapters one and two, II SaKong, chairman of the Presidential Committee for the Group of Twenty (G-20) Seoul Summit, and Ngozi...

Using two macroeconomic models and results, the authors simulate global outcomes in the 1990s under several scenarios, allowing for the impact of: (a) changes in industrial countries'financial and macroeconomic conditions; (b) changes in the international oil market; and (c) changes in...