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Leveling the Playing Field
This paper analyzes various linkages and interconnections between gender inequality and the macroeconomy. The prevalence of gender inequality, particu...
Analysis of Inequality in Asia
This paper focusses on income inequality in Asia, its drivers and policies to combat it. It finds that income inequality has risen in most of Asia, in...
Empowering Women and Tackling Income Inequality
This study shows empirically that gender inequality and income inequality are strongly interlinked, even after controlling for standard drivers of inc...
The proposed SDN discusses the specific macro-critical aspects of womenโs participation in the labor market and the constraints that prevent women f...
A Global Perspective
This paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers, and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary wi...
This paper analyzes the relationship between fiscal and structural policies and gender inequality in education and labor force participation for count...
We show that gender inequality decreases the variety of goods countries produce and export, in particular in low-income and developing countries. We a...
Unpaid work, such as caring for children, the elderly, and household chores represents a significant share of economic activity but is not counted as ...
Central banks, as the epitome of the economics profession and the main paragon of public institutions, can reveal key insights into gender patterns. W...
Why So Few Among So Many?
This paper examines the determinants of female labor force participation in India, against the backdrop of India having one of the lowest participatio...
More Equal Laws Boost Female Labor Force Participation
This Staff Discussion Note examines the effect of gender-based legal restrictions and other policy choices and demographic characteristics on female l...
New technologies?digitalization, artificial intelligence, and machine learning?are changing the way work gets done at an unprecedented rate. Helping p...
The Road to Sustained Growth
Since the mid-1960s, Thailand's growth performance has been exceptional. Although hard hit by the external shocks fo the late 1970s and the early 1980...
This paper reviews China's experience with market-oriented reform since 1978, including domestic reforms, the opening of the economy to foreign trade ...
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A Sector-level Perspective on Productivity Trends in Advanced Economies
Total factor productivity growth was stagnant or slowing in many advanced countries even prior to the crisis. This paper documents sector-level produc...
An Evolving Market Economy: A Review of Reform Experience
This paper examines Chinaโs reform experience since 1978, reviewing major initiatives taken and assessing their impact on economic structure and the...
The Importance of Productivity-Enhancing Reforms in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Fostering and sustaining robust economic growth is an imperative across advanced, emerging, and low-income countries alike. Countries will need to foc...
Issues in Managing Water Challenges and Policy Instruments
This paper examines water challenges, a growing global concern with adverse economic and social consequences, and discusses economic policy instrument...
Which Exports Can Drive the Next Wave of Growth?
Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they trade. This paper breaks new g...
Growth Prospects and Challenges
After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a p...
Macroeconomic Developments and Policy Lessons
This paper reviews macroeconomic developments during the first year of the crisis in east Asia and draws some preliminary policy lessons. The crisis i...
Evidence from India
Do financial sector reforms necessarily result in expansion of credit to the private sector? How does bank ownership affect the availability of credit...
An Empirical Analysis Using Johansen'S Cointegration Approach
In this paper, the behavior of Chinaโs imports during the period 1980-92 is studied. The estimation of cointegration and error correction mechanisms...
India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fast-growing Asian economies. While the importance of servic...
Economic and Policy Developments
Lessons from Adjustment Policies in Eight Economies
This study examines the links between adjustment policies and growth in a small group of developing countries- Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, India, Mexico...
We analyze the capital controls imposed in Malaysia in September 1998. In macroeconomic terms, these controls neither yielded major benefits nor were ...