Documents & Reports
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Afghanistan to 2030 : background paper : Computable general-equilibrium modeling of Afghanistan growth opportunities (English)
This paper presents a general equilibrium analysis applied to evaluate different growth policy options for Afghanistan. The analysis is part of a larger analytical work program undertaken by the World...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 126644 Document Date: January 2, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Estrades,Carmen,Campoy,Diego
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Investigating the transmission channels behind Dutch disease effects: lessons from Mongolia using a CGE model (English)
This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model -- Maquette for Millennium Development Goal Simulations (MAMS) -- calibrated to Mongolia to investigate how the development of major mining projects...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8183 Document Date: September 6, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Shaukat Khan,Tehmina,Gottschalk,Jan
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Modeling the impact of large infrastructure projects : a case study from Niger - Macroeconomic Assessment of Public Investment Options (MAPIO) (English)
Evidence illustrates that investment in infrastructure is essential to accelerate inclusive growth. Indeed, a number of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have begun to devote greater resources to large-scale...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 100636 Document Date: November 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Beguy,Olivier,Dessus, Sébastien,Garba,Abdoulahi,Hayman,Jason Joaquin,Herderschee,Johannes
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Creating and using fiscal space for accelerated development in Liberia (English)
This paper presents simulations for the period 2013-2030 of measures that permit increased spending on infrastructure and human development, the priority areas in Liberia's 2013-2017 "Agenda for Transformation"...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6678 Document Date: October 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lofgren,Hans Lennart
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Infrastructure for growth and human development in Pakistan : a simulation analysis of fiscal policy options (English)
This paper explores the use of fiscal policy to accelerate development in Pakistan during the period 2013-2022, with a focus on the creation of fiscal space for increased investment in infrastructure...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6554 Document Date: August 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kinnunen, Jouko,Lofgren,Hans Lennart
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Closing rural-urban MDG gaps in low-income countries : a general equilibrium perspective (English)
This paper addresses policies aimed at closing the rural-urban gap for one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the under-five mortality rate (U5MR). The paper relies on the Maquette for MDG Simulations...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6390 Document Date: March 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lofgren,Hans Lennart
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External shocks, fiscal policy and income distribution : alternative scenarios for Moldova (English)
The economy of Moldova, which has one of the lowest levels of gross national income per capita in the World Bank Europe and Central Asia region, is strongly linked to the outside world, especially to the...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6365 Document Date: February 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kinnunen, Jouko,Lofgren,Hans Lennart,Merotto,Dino Leonardo,Sulla,Victor
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MDGs and beyond newsletter (English)
This Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and beyond newsletter includes the following headings: statistics for the new agenda; what will it take to improve poverty monitoring? United Nation (UN) mulls...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 73985 Document Date: November 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Verbeek,Jos
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Global monitoring report 2013 : rural-urban dynamics and the millennium development goals - concept note (English)
The 2013 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) will mark the tenth edition of the GMR since the inception of the report in 2004. The GMR continues to provide an annual assessment of progress towards the Millennium...
Document Type: Board Report Report No.: 73237 Document Date: October 16, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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MDGs and beyond newsletter (English)
This Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) newsletter includes the following headings: global goals...local results, stunted growth, stunted future; huge effort needed on child mortality; and country analysis...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 73984 Document Date: October 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Verbeek,Jos
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Liberia : strategic policy options for medium term growth and development (English)
The objective of this paper is to inform Liberia's medium-term growth and development strategy for 2012-17 and its National Vision: Liberia Rising 2030, both of which are under preparation. The analysis...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6081 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dessus,Sebastien C.,Hoffman,Jariya,Lofgren,Hans Lennart
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World food prices and human development: Policy simulations for archetype low-income countries (English)
In recent years, world food prices have increased and fluctuated widely. This paper explores the impact of international food prices and domestic policies on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and macro...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6033 Document Date: April 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lofgren,Hans Lennart
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Liberia - Strategic policy options for medium term growth and development (English)
This paper explores Liberia's policy options in support of the development of a Medium-Term Growth and Development Strategy (MTGDS) for 2013-2017 and its national vision, Liberia Rising 2030. At issue...
Document Type: Other Poverty Study Report No.: 67300 Document Date: March 15, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Achieving the MDGs in Yemen : an assessment (English)
Once the current political crisis in Yemen has been resolved, it will be ever more urgent to speed up progress, including Millennium Development Goal (MDG) achievements. Drawing on simulations with the...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6013 Document Date: March 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Al-Batuly,Abdulmajeed Al-Shaikh,Al-Hawri, Mohamed,Cicowiez,Martin,Lofgren,Hans Lennart,Pournik, Mohammad
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Knowledge Change Program (KCP) perspectives : putting knowledge to work (vol. 1, no. 2) (English)
This brief includes the following headings: trade policy and development; key lessons from the KCP projects; global reform of agriculture: complementary policies matter; and development policy analysis...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 66669 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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How important is the efficiency of government investment ? The case of the Republic of Congo (English)
The Republic of Congo, an oil rich country in Central Africa, has made substantial progress in the past decade in stabilizing the economy and achieving high growth rates. However, despite reaching middle-income...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5901 Document Date: December 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nielsen,Hannah Sibylle,Lofgren,Hans Lennart
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Scaling up aid or scaling down : the global economic crisis and Rwanda's MDGs (English)
Rwanda is not on track to achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals at a time when hopes for scaled-up aid are mixed with concerns that, in the context of the global economic crisis, aid instead...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4958 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lofgren,Hans Lennart,Nielsen,Hannah Sibylle,Ezemenari,Kenechukwu Maria
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Impact estimation of disasters : a global aggregate for 1960 to 2007 (English)
This paper aims to estimate the global aggregate of disaster impacts during 1960 to 2007 using Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) methodology. The authors selected 184 major disasters in terms of the size...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4963 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Okuyama, Yasuhide,Sahin,Sebnem
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Aid, service delivery, and the millennium development goals in an economy-wide framework (English)
In many developing countries, achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will require significant increases in expenditures on social services and in foreign assistance. It will also require...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4683 Document Date: July 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bourguignon,Alain Jean-Francois,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Lofgren,Hans Lennart
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Achieving accelerated and shared growth in Ghana : a MAMS-based analysis of costs and opportunities (English)
This paper relies on the recently developed Maquette for Millennium Development Goals Simulations (MAMS) model to assess the consistency of alternative scaling-up and policy packages for growth and achievement...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4523 Document Date: February 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko,Bussolo,Maurizio,Medvedev,Denis