Documents et rapports
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The mechanics of job creation : seizing the new dividends of globalization (anglais)
This paper assesses some of the main strands of the theoretical literature on unemployment and employment and shows that their interesting conclusions may not be transferable to low-income countries whose...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6661 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Monga,Celestin
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Industrial policy in the African context (anglais)
After long suffering from benign neglect if not outright contempt, industrial policy is almost fashionable again. The global financial and economic crisis known as the Great Recession has forced researchers...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6633 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Stiglitz,Joseph Eugene,Lin, Justin,Monga,Celestin,Patel, Ebrahim
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The rejuvenation of industrial policy (anglais)
This essay is about an important area in which there has been major rethinking -- industrial policy, by which the authors mean government policies directed at affecting the economic structure of the economy...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6628 Date du document: 1 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Stiglitz,Joseph Eugene,Yifu, Justin,Monga,Celestin
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Solving the mystery of African Governance (anglais)
There is a wide consensus in academic and policy circles on the idea that good governance is a prerequisite to sustained growth and economic development. Good governance generally 'relates to political...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 79020 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lin, Justin Yifu,Monga,Celestin
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Light manufacturing in Tanzania : a reform agenda for job creation and prosperity (anglais)
The chapters in part one provides the overall context of light manufacturing in Tanzania. Chapter one presents the rationale for the study, the potential of the sector in creating jobs and prosperity for...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 80893 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dinh,Hinh Truong,Monga,Celestin,Morisset,Jacques,Kweka,Josaphat Paul,Yagci,Fahrettin,Yoshino,Yutaka
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Cluster-based industrial parks : a practical framework for action (anglais)
They are being hailed as the new Holy Grail of economic development. The success of special economic zones (SEZ) in general and specialized ones in particular (industrial and technology parks) in countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5900 Date du document: 1 décembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Monga,Celestin
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Growth identification and facilitation : the role of the state in the dynamics of structural change : Identificación y facilitación del crecimiento : El rol del estado en la dinámica del cambio estructural (espagnol)
Active economic policies by developing countries’ governments to promote growth and industrialization have generally been viewed with suspicion by economists, and for good reasons: past experiences show...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5313 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lin, Justin Yifu,Monga,Celestin
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The growth report and new structural economics (anglais)
Despite its heavy human, financial, and economic cost, the recent global recession provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the knowledge from several decades of growth research, draw policy lessons...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5336 Date du document: 1 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lin, Justin Yifu,Monga,Celestin
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Growth identification and facilitation : the role of the state in the dynamics of structural change (anglais)
Active economic policies by developing countries’ governments to promote growth and industrialization have generally been viewed with suspicion by economists, and for good reasons: past experiences show...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5313 Date du document: 1 mai 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lin, Justin Yifu,Monga,Celestin
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Hegelian macroeconomics -- the dialectics of global imbalances (anglais)
Traditional narratives of external imbalances have focused on the analysis of national accounts, trade flows, and financial flows. They have generated two opposing views of the current situation of the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5175 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Monga,Celestin
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Post-macroeconomics -- reflections on the crisis and strategic directions ahead (anglais)
For decades, many researchers argued that economics had nothing to fear from enriching itself with lessons and advances from other disciplines. Unfortunately, these suggestions were either neglected or...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4986 Date du document: 1 juillet 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Monga,Celestin
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Uncivil societies - a theory of sociopolitical change (anglais)
In times of crises, it is always useful to revisit some of the paradigms that underlie collective thinking and action. For nearly 200 years, most social science has relied on the assumption that the emergence...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4942 Date du document: 1 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Monga,Celestin
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Dynamics of income inequality and welfare in Latvia in the late 1990s (anglais)
This paper analyzes the dynamics of poverty and income inequality during the recovery phase of the transition that characterized the Republic of Latvia in the late 1990s. Despite a continued rise in income...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3336 Date du document: 1 juin 2004 Auteur: Fofack,Hippolyte L.,Monga,Celestin
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Latvia's macroeconomic options in the medium term : fiscal and monetary challenges of European Union membership : Latvia's macroeconomic options in the medium term : Fiscal and monetary challenges of European Union membership (anglais)
Latvia's experience over the past decade shows that economic growth and real convergence can no longer be assumed to be exogenously driven processes determined by given technological improvements and relatively...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3307 Date du document: 1 mai 2004 Auteur: Monga,Celestin