Global Economic Prospects

Events Next Week on Measuring and Monitoring Progress on the Bank’s Twin Goals

World Bank Group President Jim Kim  will be interviewed by journalist Yang Lan in “Building Shared Prosperity in an Unequal World” event on Oct 8, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the…

Weekly links September 26: Poverty Traps, Soft and Hard Savings, What Do Development Executives Think about RCTs and more

The Economist Free Exchange blog covers my poverty traps paper with Aart Kraay and re-analyzes the data to try to argue poverty traps are more common than we claim – Aart provides a nice rejoinder…

David McKenzie|

Friday Roundup: Ebola, R&D of Tropical Diseases, One-on-One with Kaushik Basu, the ADB Calls for a Rethink of the International Poverty Line, and the WEF's Global Risks Report

Reuters reports that the number of new Ebola cases in West Africa is growing faster than authorities can manage them, and that the World Health Organization (WHO) is renewing a call for health…

Lessons From Megadisasters

Japan’s advanced Disaster Risk Management (DRM) system, built up during nearly 2, 000 years of coping with natural risks and hazards, proved its worth in helping its people survive the Great East…

Federica Ranghieri|

Friday Roundup: WB to update income classifications July 1, Ravallion on the LIS, Oxfam releases poverty index, and solar innovation

On July 1, the World Bank's Data Group will update its analytical income classification of all the world's economies and, in a related move, they are reviewing their methodology and…