Showing 1 - 10 of 8,358
In 1960, there were 101 middle-income countries. By 2008, only thirteen of these had become high-income countries. Why do so many middle-income countries fail to develop after a promising start, becoming mired in the so-called middle-income trap? This interdisciplinary volume addresses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388163
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417186
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742909
development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the … developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears that this will not be a short-lived crisis. The poor countries are … survival. At high- level meetings held in 2008 to mark the MDG halfway point, world leaders expressed grave concern that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561186
A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012673994
, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393345
, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403103
The lack of growth response to "Washington Consensus" policy reforms in the 1980s and 1990s led to widespread doubts about the value of such reforms. This paper updates these stylized facts by analyzing moderate to extreme levels of inflation, black market premiums, currency overvaluation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480263
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124891
The lack of growth response to “Washington Consensus” policy reforms in the 1980s and 1990s led to widespread doubts about the value of such reforms. This paper updates these stylized facts by analyzing moderate to extreme levels of inflation, black market premiums, currency overvaluation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313257