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  • Cross-Border Banking in EMDEs : Trends, Scale, and Policy Implications (English)

    Cross-border banking in emerging markets and developing economies has expanded across most World Bank regions and has become large relative to some home and host economies. This paper analyzes recent trends...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9393 Document Date: September 9, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Feyen,Erik H.B.,Fiess,Norbert Matthias,Bertay,Ata Can,Zuccardi Huertas,Igor Esteban

  • Angola Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) : Towards Economic Diversification (English)

    The Angolan economy is at a significant juncture. The current growth model based on oil wealth is nearly exhausted and has not delivered inclusive growth and shared prosperity. Angola faces two broad policy...

    Document Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report No.: 133234 Document Date: December 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fiess,Norbert Matthias,Alnafeesi,Ahmad,Barroso,Rafael Chelles,Calderon,Cesar,Didier,Tatiana,Engelke,Wilfried,Nielsen,Hannah Sibylle,Trost,Melanie

  • Deepening Regional Integration to Advance Growth and Prosperity (English)

    The Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), which consists of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, is one of the oldest regional...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 128576 Document Date: June 29, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fiess,Norbert Matthias,Aguera,Philippe Marie,Calderon,Cesar,Jensen,Leif,Gaskell,Joanne Catherine,Keyser,John C.,Nielsen,Hannah Sibylle,Portugal,Alberto,Signoret,Jose E.

  • Selected Policy Notes for Incoming Administration of Angola (English)

    The Angolan economy is at a juncture. The current growth model based on oil wealth is nearly exhausted,and has not delivered inclusive growth and shared prosperity. The challenge for the administration...

    Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 124586 Document Date: March 14, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fiess,Norbert Matthias,Didier,Tatiana

  • Primary commodity prices : co-movements, common factors and fundamentals (English)

    The behavior of commodities is critical for developing and developed countries alike. This paper contributes to the empirical evidence on the co-movement and determinants of commodity prices. Using nonstationary...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5578 Document Date: February 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Byrne,Joseph P.,Fazio,Giorgio,Fiess,Norbert Matthias

  • Economics of 'policy-induced' fragmentation : the costs of closures regime to West Bank and Gaza (English)

    Israeli security measures, which were increased in response to the Intifada in 2000, have imposed a major cost on the economy of the West Bank and Gaza, and are heavily undercutting its current and future...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 43821 Document Date: January 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Akkaya,Sebnem,Fiess,Norbert Matthias,Kaminski, Bartlomiej,Raballand,Gael J. R. F.

  • The World Bank economic review 21 (1) (English)

    This issue includes the following: growth and risk: methodology and micro evidence; by Chris Elbers, Jan Willem Gunning, and Bill Kinsey. Dollars, debt, and international financial institutions: dedollarizing...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 45346 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Gunning,Jan Willem,Kinsey,Bill H., Levy Yeyat, Eduardo,Fiess,Norbert Matthias,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Jack,William G.,O'Donnell,Owen Andrew,Van Doorslaer,Eddy K.A.,Rannan-Eliya,Ravindra Prasan,Somanathan,Aparnaa,Adhikari,Shiva Raj, Harbianto Den, Garg Charu C, Hanuorauongchai, Piya, N. Hug, Mohammed,Karan Anup, M. Leung, Gabriel, Wan Ng, Chiu, Raj Pande, Badri, Tin, Keith, Tisayaticom, Kanjana,Trisnantoro,Laksono,Zhang,Yuhui,Zhao,Yuxin,Pradhan,Menno Prasad,Saadah,Fadia M.,Sparrow,Robert A., Pfaffenzeller, Stephan, Newbold, Paul, Rayner, Anthony,Nicita,Alessandro,Olarreaga,Marcelo