Documentos e informes

The Trade-Growth Nexus: Evidence of Causality from Innovative Instruments for Trade (Inglés)

During the past decades, extensive literature has emphasized the role of both international trade and openness in fostering economic growth. Endogeneity bias is a nagging challenge for any empirical attempt...

Does Agricultural Intensification Pay ? (Inglés)

Modern inputs and mechanization are promoted across Africa to raise smallholder labor productivity and broker the structural transformation. Yet, adoption has remained low and the implications for returns...

Good Enough for Outstanding Growth : The Experience of Bangladesh in Comparative Perspective (Inglés)

This paper investigates the outstanding economic growth experience of Bangladesh. It shows that the country’s improvements in structural correlates of growth from 1990 to 2004 are in the global top 5 percent...

Brazil Human Capital Review : Investing in People - Executive Summary (Inglés)

How much talent is lost in Brazil because of unideal education and health conditions? The Brazil Human Capital Review is part of the Human Capital Project, a global initiative of the World Bank Group that...

Brazil - Promoting Sustainable Productivity Growth : A Triangular Set of Reforms (Inglés)

This package of policy notes is addressed to Brazilian society and specifically to the Presidential candidates and their teams of economic advisors in the 2018 election. It provides the World Bank’s diagnosis...

Brasil - Promovendo o Crescimento Sustentável da Produtividade : Três Conjuntos de Reformas-chave (Portugués)

Este pacote de Notas de Políticas Públicas é dirigido à sociedade brasileira e especificamente aos candidatos à presidência e sua equipe econômica na eleição de 2018. Ele apresenta o diagnóstico do Banco...

Speech by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim at the GSMA 2018 mobile world congress (Inglés)

These remarks were delivered by the World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, at the GSMA 2018 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on February 26, 2018. Mr. Kim speaks about how mobile operators can and...

Speech by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim at the GSMA 2018 Mobile World Congress (Inglés)

The report records the speech by the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim at the GSMA 2018 mobile world congress at Spain in February 2018. He speaks about how mobile operators can and must play a critical...

Georgia - Making the recovery sustainable : country economic update (Inglés)

The country benefited from the improved external demand in 2017. Global growth is estimated to have picked up in 2017 to 3.0 percent from 2.4 percent in 2016, reflecting gradual recovery in the euro area...

The effect of aid on growth : evidence from a quasi-experiment (Inglés)

The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987...

Determinants of economic growth : a bayesian panel data approach (Inglés)

Model uncertainty hampers consensus on the key determinants of economic growth. Some recent cross-country, cross-sectional analyses have employed Bayesian Model Averaging to address the issue of model...

Philippines - National Program-Support to Environment and Natural Resources Management Project (Inglés)

Core course : economic growth (Inglés)

The Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Group of World Bank Institute (WBIEP) conducted a core course on economic growth in Washington, D.C. from January 20-21, 1999. This is the third offering of this...

Core course : economic growth and poverty reduction theory, evidence, and implications for Central Asia (Inglés)

The Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Division of The World Bank Institute (WBIEP) conducted a core course on economic growth and poverty reduction: theory, evidence, and implications for Central Asia...

Core course : new issues in economic growth (Inglés)

The Macroeconomic Management and Policy Division of Economic Development Institute (EDIMP) conducted a core course on new issues in economic growth in Washington, D.C. from June 8-12, 1998. The five-day...

Patterns of economic growth : hills, plateaus, mountains, and plains (Inglés)

Except during the Great Depression, the historical path for per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States has been reasonably stable exponential trend growth, with modest cyclical deviation...