Documents et rapports
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The Evolving Geography of Productivity and Employment : Ideas for Inclusive Growth through a Territorial Lens in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
Geographical factors have largely been ignored by those trying to explain the record of persistently low economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The study described in this report has...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 188923 Date du document: 5 avril 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ianchovichina,Elena
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Territorial Productivity Differences and Dynamics within Latin American Countries (anglais)
The paper documents the evolution of territorial disparities in labor and location productivity in 14 countries in Latin America, using millions of observations from harmonized household surveys and censuses...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10480 Date du document: 12 juin 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: D'Aoust,Olivia Severine,Galdo,Virgilio,Ianchovichina,Elena
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The Promise of Integration : Opportunities in a Changing Global Economy (anglais)
The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region has proved to be relatively resilient in the face of increased debt stress, stubborn inflation, and uncertainty arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 182130 Date du document: 15 mai 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Maloney,William F.,Ianchovichina,Elena,Riera-Crichton,Daniel,Vuletin,Guillermo Javier,Beylis,Guillermo Raul
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Consumption Cities versus Production Cities : New Considerations and Evidence (anglais)
Cities dramatically vary in their sectoral composition across the world, possibly lending credence to the theory that some cities are production cities with high employment shares of urban tradables while...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10105 Date du document: 24 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedwab,Remi Camille,Ianchovichina,Elena,Haslop,Federico
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Spatial Development and Mobility Frictions in Latin America : Theory-Based Empirical Evidence (anglais)
Using fine-grained spatial data and a dynamic spatial general equilibrium model, this paper assesses the magnitude of mobility frictions in Latin America as well as the effects of their reduction on spatial...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10071 Date du document: 31 mai 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Conte,Bruno,Ianchovichina,Elena
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Consolidating the Recovery : Seizing Green Growth Opportunities (anglais)
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is consolidating its recovery from the COVID‐19 crisis, but the road ahead poses challenges: The damage inflicted by the pandemic on education and poverty require...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 170265 Date du document: 6 avril 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Maloney,William F.,Beylis,Guillermo Raul,Vuletin,Guillermo Javier,Riera-Crichton,Daniel,Galdo,Virgilio,Ianchovichina,Elena,Qu,Ayan,Rojas Alvarado,Luis Diego,Singh,Rucheta,Ruiz Orrico,Pilar
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Consolidando a Recuperacao : Aproveitando as Oportunidades do Crescimento Verde (portugais)
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is consolidating its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, but the road ahead poses challenges: The damage inflicted by the pandemic on education and poverty require...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 170265 Date du document: 6 avril 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Maloney,William F.,Beylis,Guillermo Raul,Vuletin,Guillermo Javier,Riera-Crichton,Daniel,Galdo,Virgilio,Ianchovichina,Elena,Qu,Ayan,Rojas Alvarado,Luis Diego,Singh,Rucheta,Ruiz Orrico,Pilar
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Consolidando la Recuperacion : Aprovechando las Oportunidades del Crecimiento Verde (espagnol)
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is consolidating its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, but the road ahead poses challenges: The damage inflicted by the pandemic on education and poverty require...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 170265 Date du document: 6 avril 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Maloney,William F.,Beylis,Guillermo Raul,Vuletin,Guillermo Javier,Riera-Crichton,Daniel,Galdo,Virgilio,Ianchovichina,Elena,Qu,Ayan,Rojas Alvarado,Luis Diego,Singh,Rucheta,Ruiz Orrico,Pilar
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Heterogeneous Agglomeration Economies in the Developing Countries : The Roles of Firm Characteristics, Sector Tradability, and Urban Mobility (anglais)
Using geo-coded, firm-level data on more than 51,000 establishments in 649 metropolitan areas in 98 developing economies, from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys and a new global database on city-level...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9954 Date du document: 7 mars 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Burger,Martijn,Ianchovichina,Elena,Akbar,Prottoy Aman
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Anatomy of Brazil’s Subjective Well-Being : A Tale of Growing Discontent and Polarization in the 2010s (anglais)
After increasing for years and reaching high levels, Brazil’s subjective well-being deteriorated following the economic contraction in 2015. Using data from the Gallup World Poll for the 2010s, this paper...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9924 Date du document: 2 février 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Burger,Martijn,Hendriks,Martijn,Ianchovichina,Elena
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Trade Networks in Latin America : Spatial Inefficiencies and Optimal Expansions (anglais)
How do trade connectivity issues affect the efficient spatial distribution of economic activity within and across countries in Latin America? This paper uses a spatial general equilibrium framework to...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9843 Date du document: 5 novembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gorton,Nicole Emily,Ianchovichina,Elena
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Happy but Unequal : Differences in Subjective Well-Being across Individuals and Space in Colombia (anglais)
Despite being on average a relatively happy country, Colombia has a high level of inequality in subjective well-being. Using Gallup World Poll data for the period from 2010 to 2018, this paper tests the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9554 Date du document: 24 février 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Burger,Martijn,Hendriks,Martijn,Ianchovichina,Elena
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Taking Another Look at Policy Research on China's Accession to the World Trade Organization (anglais)
Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China in the 1980s and 1990s. These reforms created the preconditions for accession and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8932 Date du document: 1 juillet 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ianchovichina,Elena,Martin,William J.
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Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both (anglais)
Women's economic empowerment is not a new issue; nevertheless, it continues to challenge governments and development assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8847 Date du document: 7 mai 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ianchovichina,Elena,Leipziger,Danny M.
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Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings (anglais)
This study analyzes whether subjective well-being measures can explain variation in peaceful uprisings, in addition to the objective measures typically used in analyses of this type of events. Using data...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8705 Date du document: 16 janvier 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Witte,Caroline T.,Burger,Martijn J.,Ianchovichina,Elena
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Eruptions of popular anger : the economics of the Arab spring and its aftermath (anglais)
The Arab Spring protests caught most of the world by surprise and precipitated a chain of events that changed the course of history in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ushering in a period of prolonged...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 121942 Date du document: 6 décembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ianchovichina,Elena
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Polarization, foreign military intervention, and civil conflict (anglais)
In a behavioral model of civil conflict, foreign military intervention alters the resources available to warring groups and their probability of winning. The model highlights the importance of distributional...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8248 Date du document: 20 novembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abu Bader,Suleiman,Ianchovichina,Elena
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Dodging bullets : the heterogeneous effect of political violence on greenfield FDI (anglais)
The relationship between political violence and greenfield foreign direct investment is contingent on the type of violence, characteristics of the investment-receiving sector, and extent to which the investing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7914 Date du document: 13 décembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Witte,Caroline T.,Burger,Martijn J.,Ianchovichina,Elena,Pennings,Enrico
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Is inequality underestimated in Egypt ? evidence from house prices (anglais)
Household income surveys often fail to capture top incomes which leads to an underestimation of income inequality. A popular solution is to combine the household survey with data from income tax records...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7727 Date du document: 22 juin 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van Der Weide,Roy,Lakner,Christoph,Ianchovichina,Elena
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Who supports violent extremism in developing countries ? analysis of attitudes based on value surveys (anglais)
What are the common characteristics among radicalized individuals, willing to justify attacks targeting civilians? Drawing on information on attitudes toward extreme violence and other characteristics...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7691 Date du document: 1 juin 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kiendrebeogo,Youssouf,Ianchovichina,Elena