Do Poverty Traps Exist? is the question asked by Aart Kraay and David McKenzie in an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
An articulate, humble piece by IMF Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard on key lessons from the 2009 financial crisis, the main one being that much more attention needs to be paid to what he calls ‘dark corners’
A new study by an international team of researchers finds that the world's population will hit 11bn in 2100.
Roger Williamson reports back from a recent UNU-WIDER conference on inequality, with good news on Latin America
The Bank this week released a report on the potential short and medium term economic impacts of the 2014 Ebola epidemic.
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