Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management

What is working at the World Bank like? Experiences of two young development economics researchers

This blog highlight the experiences of two fellows from last year’s World Bank Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program.

Emma Frankham, Maria Jones|
Competitiveness, Financial Inclusion, Governance, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty, Trade

The urgent need for data to understand the link between taxation and women’s economic empowerment

Taxation offers an objective and measurable benchmark for global progress toward gender equality. However, we lack a global picture of how women are treated by tax policies. To address the gap,…

Hannelore Maria Leona Niesten, Marie Caitriona Hyland|
Competitiveness, Debt, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Gender, Governance, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management

How data integration can improve socioeconomic measurement

This World Bank working paper shows that integrating survey and geospatial data significantly improves survey estimates, in terms of precision and accuracy, of monetary poverty rates in Mexican…

David Newhouse, Joshua Merfeld, Anusha Ramakrishnan, Tom Swartz, Partha Lahiri|
Competitiveness, Financial Inclusion, Governance, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty, Trade

What do we know about cash and in-kind transfers in humanitarian settings? Not enough

In a partnership with the World Banks' DIME, a USAID-funded workstream in collaboration with the World Food Programme’s Office of Evaluation assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of cash…

Iva Trako, Dahyeon Jeong|
Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Governance, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty, Social Protection

Policy Research Working Paper series publication roundup for September 1-15

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces five papers published in the first half of September 2022 on various topics,…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team|
Agriculture and Food, Financial Sector, Governance, Health, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty, Social Protection
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