The existing literature on development and economic diversification finds an inverted-U function between these two variables, whereby economies diversify as they grow up to a point, after which they...
Treating data collected pre- and post-COVID-19 as a quasi-experiment, this paper examines the importance of presumed enablers and safeguards in driving the observed expansion of digital payments and...
Covid-19. The Russian invasion of Ukraine. Commodity price volatility. The rise of global inflation and interest rates. Currency depreciations among indebted middle-income economies. And now, natural ...
This paper investigates the impacts of job displacement on subsequent labor market outcomes, focusing on differentiated effects by educational groups and gender. The findings show that job separations...
This paper examines the role of a country’s data transparency in explaining gross domestic product growth forecast errors. It reports four sets of results that have not been previously reported...
The case for digitalizing economies has never been stronger. Above all, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made the benefits of conducting contactless transactions starkly clear. Yet, as this report...
The case for digitalizing economies has never been stronger. Above all, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made the benefits of conducting contactless transactions starkly clear. Yet, as this report...
The case for digitalizing economies has never been stronger. Above all, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made the benefits of conducting contactless transactions starkly clear. Yet, as this report ...
Public debt in developing economies rose at a fast clip during 2020–21, at least partly due to the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman opined in early 2021 that “fighting...
The Middle East and North Africa economies face an uncertain recovery. The war in Ukraine presents significant challenges to the global economy and the MENA region. Inflationary pressures brought about...
The Middle East and North Africa economies face an uncertain recovery. The war in Ukraine presents significant challenges to the global economy and the MENA region. Inflationary pressures brought about...
The Middle East and North Africa economies face an uncertain recovery. The war in Ukraine presents significant challenges to the global economy and the MENA region. Inflationary pressures brought about...
Uncertainty is again clouding the prospects for the global economy. The unexpected war in Europe presents significant challenges to the world economy and to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region...
Uncertainty is again clouding the prospects for the global economy. The unexpected war in Europe presents significant challenges to the world economy and to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region...
Uncertainty is again clouding the prospects for the global economy. The unexpected war in Europe presents significant challenges to the world economy and to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region...
This report examines the region’s economic prospects in 2021, forecasting that the recovery will be both tenuous and uneven as per capita GDP level stays below pre-pandemic levels. COVID-19 was a stress-test ...
This report examines the region’s economic prospects in 2021, forecasting that the recovery will be both tenuous and uneven as per capita GDP level stays below pre-pandemic levels. COVID-19 was a stress-test ...
Economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain in crisis. The World Bank estimates the regional output to have contracted 3.8 percent in 2020 and expects it to rebound by only 2.2 percent...
Economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain in crisis. The World Bank estimates the regional output to have contracted 3.8 percent in 2020 and expects it to rebound by only 2.2 percent...
Economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain in crisis. The World Bank estimates the regional output to have contracted 3.8 percent in 2020 and expects it to rebound by only 2.2 percent...