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  • Long-term finance in EMEs : navigating between risks and policy choices (Inglês)

    Emerging market economies (EMEs) are making important strides in developing long-term finance capital market vehicles to support investment in strategic areas such as infrastructure. However, since last...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 89224 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Canuto,Otaviano,Silva,Anderson Caputo,Garcia-Kilroy,Catalina

  • The commodity super cycle : is this time different? (Inglês)

    Some analysts believe that the commodity price boom of the new millennium has played itself out. However, natural resource based commodity prices (with the exception of shale gas and its downward pressure...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 88949 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Canuto,Otaviano

  • A framework to assess the fiscal risks of public bodies : Jamaica (Inglês)

    This note outlines a framework for assessing the extent of fiscal risks inherent in the operations of public bodies (PBs), highlighting eight applications in Jamaica. Scenario analysis and stress testing...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 88612 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Cazorla,Marta Riveira,Longmore,Rohan,Verhoeven,Marinus

  • Sharing prosperity by closing South Asia's infrastructure gap (Inglês)

    While South Asia's average gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the past decade was only slightly lower than in East Asia and the Pacific, the region significantly lags behind in terms of infrastructure...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 88928 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Andres,Luis Alberto,Basnyat,Ashma,Biller,S. A. Dan,Herrera Dappe,Matias

  • Three perspectives on Brazilian growth pessimism (Inglês)

    Over the last few years, Brazil's growth has significantly decelerated. Accompanying this slowdown, a change in commentary on Brazil's economic future has emerged, and is reflected in a recent ratings...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 88848 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Canuto,Otaviano,Schellekens,Philip

  • Future without oil? : diversifying options for Trinidad and Tobago (Inglês)

    Trinidad and Tobago (T and T) is an example of successful diversification within the oil and gas sector and the country is now a global player in the energy industry. Diversifying its asset base so that...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: No. do relatório: 87852 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Carneiro,Francisco Galrao,Cazorla,Marta Riveira,Jaupart,Pascal Jean Edouard,Longmore,Rohan

  • Is aging bad for the economy? Maybe (Inglês)

    The world's aging population is expected to shape the future of economies across the globe. Without behavioral adaptation by current and future generations, this demographic transformation is likely to...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 88221 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Onder,Harun,Pestieau,Pierre

  • Making global value chains work for development (Inglês)

    Global value chains (GVCs) are playing an increasingly important role in business strategies, which has profoundly changed international trade and development paradigms. GVCs now represent a new path for...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 88053 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Taglioni,Daria,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth

  • Sluggish post crisis growth : policies, secular stagnation, and outlook (Inglês)

    In the aftermath of the recent global financial crisis, advanced economies have continued to experience sluggish growth. Is this slow post crisis growth the result of a policy response that was overly...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 86483 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Canuto,Otaviano,Griffith,Breda,Nallari,Yugandhar Raj

  • Urbanization, gender, and business creation in the informal sector in India (Inglês)

    This economic premise examines the intersection of four important development themes: urbanization, agglomeration, gender, and informality. Although urbanization has continued at a rapid pace, formalization...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 87096 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kanbur,Ravi,O'Connell Stephen D.

  • Access to finance, product innovation, and middle-income growth traps (Inglês)

    After experiencing an initial period of rapid growth, many developing countries have fallen into the middle-income 'trap', stuck between low-wage, low-technology markets and high-income, innovation-based...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 86114 Data do documento: 1 de março de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Agenor,Pierre-Richard,Canuto,Otaviano,Jelenic,Michael Christopher

  • Nothing to fear but fear itself : evidence on imported intermediates in Indonesia (Inglês)

    The combination of an increasing trade imbalance, concerns about deindustrialization after several years of booming commodity prices, and rising imports of intermediate inputs and capital goods over the...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 85983 Data do documento: 1 de março de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Rahardja,Sjamsu,Varela,Gonzalo J.

  • Global value chains in the current trade slowdown (Inglês)

    Real growth in global trade has decelerated significantly since its sharp recovery in 2010. Year-on-year growth in global real trade1 decelerated from 13.3 percent at the end of the first quarter of 2010...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 86232 Data do documento: 1 de março de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ferrantino,Michael Joseph,Taglioni,Daria

  • Does FDI work for Africa? Assessing local spillovers in a world of global value chains (Inglês)

    The extent to which developing countries benefit from foreign direct investment (FDI) depends on whether they are able to realize the productivity-enhancing benefits of knowledge and technology spillovers...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 84951 Data do documento: 1 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Farole,Thomas,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth

  • Reforming subsidies in Morocco (Inglês)

    The cost of the subsidy system in Morocco peaked at 6.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012, an amount larger than the country's total investment budget for that year. Direct subsidies to households...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 84516 Data do documento: 1 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Araar,Abdelkrim,El Massnaoui,Khalid,Verme,Paolo

  • What makes cities more competitive? Lessons from India (Inglês)

    Policy makers in both developed and developing countries want to accelerate spatial development, make cities more competitive, attract new entrepreneurs, boost economic growth, and promote job creation...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 83905 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kerr,William Robert,O'Connell, Stephen D.