Global Working Papers

South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago speaks at IMFC joint press conference with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde during the IMF/World Bank spring meeting in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC1983EAB0E0

How should official development assistance be allocated across countries?

Homi Kharas and Lorenz Noe

Friday, September 14, 2018

A woman draws water from a well in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad March 30, 2015. REUTERS/Caren Firouz - GF10000043990

How many people will the world leave behind?

Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Krista Rasmussen

Friday, September 14, 2018

FILE PHOTO: Power-generating wind turbines are seen at a wind park near Greneville-en-Beauce, France, November 30, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo - RC170168A5E0

Blending climate funds to finance low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure

Joshua P. Meltzer

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Pedestrians are reflected in a screen displaying stock market data in downtown Tokyo May 7, 2010. Asian stocks were hammered on Friday as mounting fears over Europe's debt crisis sparked a global market rout that sent safe-haven assets soaring and clobbered sterling. REUTERS/Michael Caronna (JAPAN - Tags: EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) - GM1E65716PD01

Rebalancing a lopsided global economy

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Samsung's new Samsung Pay mobile wallet system is demonstrated at its Australian launch in Sydney, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/Matt Siegel - S1AETLGSQJAA

Digital Australia: An economic and trade agenda

Joshua P. Meltzer

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Anita Monk and her neighbour John Everett dance during a Christmas Dinner event for older people at Hammersmith and Fulham Town Hall in London, Britain December 25, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs - RC18585124A0

Longer, more optimistic lives: Historic optimism and life expectancy in the United States

Kelsey J. O’Connor and Carol Graham

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

A man watches a board showing the graphs of stock prices at a brokerage office in Beijing, China, July 6, 2015. Chinese stocks rose on Monday after Beijing unleashed an unprecedented series of support measures over the weekend to stave off the prospect of a full-blown crash that was threatening to destabilise the world's second-biggest economy. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon - GF10000150006

The dangerous inadequacies of the world’s crisis-response mechanisms

Friday, May 4, 2018

US President Donald Trump prepares to give a speech during the panel discussion "Launch Event Women's Entrepreneur Finance Initiative" on the second day of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 8, 2017. REUTERS/Patrik STOLLARZ/Pool - RC1493FA8850

Do global forums influence domestic macroeconomic policies anymore?

Friday, April 20, 2018

People demonstrate a high security digital unit built by Motion Pay, that allows customers to pay in Chinese yuan renminbi using Chinese online money payment services "WeChat Pay", and "Alipay" using a QR code, where payments get converted to Canadian dollars at point of sales locations in Canadian stores and businesses, in Toronto, Canada, May 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Blinch - RC1DC4BFBF40

Regulating for a digital economy: Understanding the importance of cross-border data flows in Asia

Joshua P. Meltzer and Peter Lovelock

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Demonstrators take part in a protest against national pension system in Valparaiso, Chile, March 26, 2017. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido - RC17F84CDFA0

The troubled state of pension systems in Latin America: Whither the reforms of the 1990s?

Augusto de la Torre and Heinz P. Rudolph

Monday, March 12, 2018

A boy carries on his head a pile of dried shrubs he gathered to use for cooking and heating in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail - GF10000201696

Leave no country behind

Geoffrey Gertz and Homi Kharas

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

A man walks past an electronic board displaying share price movements in Tokyo September 30, 2008. Japan's Nikkei stock average fell nearly 5 percent on Tuesday to touch a three-year after U.S. lawmakers rejected a $700 billion financial bailout plan, fuelling fears about lasting damage to markets and the economy. Exporters and banks were particularly hard hit, as Tokyo followed the lead of the Dow Jones industrial average, which posted its largest point decline ever and its biggest daily percentage slide since the 1987 stock market crash. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN) - GM1E49U0V2U01

Economic risk and resilience in East Asia

Monday, October 9, 2017

A Canadian flag flies outside the North Toronto Collegiate Institute, a high school run by the Toronto District School Board in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren - RC1A92EC9340

Who and what gets left behind? Assessing Canada’s domestic status on the Sustainable Development Goals

John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

General view of the assembly line of the new Ford Fiesta in Cologne, February 4, 2013. Europe's car sales fell last month to their lowest February level in at least 23 years, industry figures showed March 19, 2013, dwindling to the sort of trickle usually only seen during the August holiday when cities are empty. Ford Motor Co has been one of the biggest casualties, with sales dropping at twice the rate of the overall market's decline for a third straight month. Its sales dropped 20.8 percent to 53,660 cars. Ford is cutting back its European production capacity with three plant closures, including its Genk factory in Belgium, to stem regional losses. Picture taken February 4, 2013. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY - Tags: BUSINESS TRANSPORT) - BM2E93J0VMM01

The middle productivity trap: Dynamics of productivity dispersion

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Tulio Medina (C) and Jennifer Vivas (centre R), parents of Eliannys Vivas, who died from diphtheria, pose for a photo with two of their children at the front porch of their home in Pariaguan, Venezuela January 26, 2017. Picture taken January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Marco Bello - RTX30FRR

Is a growing middle class good for the poor? Social policy in a time of globalization

Raj M. Desai and Homi Kharas

Thursday, July 13, 2017