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Future Development

The emerging markets e-commerce opportunity

Christoph Ungerer

Friday, March 26, 2021

Lima, Peru.- In the photos taken on November 20, 2020, it shows rural families, dedicated to different livestock activities in Lima, Peru. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the informal employment rate at the national level increased from 73% in the first quarter of this year to 75.2% in the third quarter, thus reaching the value highest in more than eight years. Today, almost eight out of ten jobs are informal.

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Debt distress and development distress: Twin crises of 2021

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Guatemala City, Guatemala.- In the photos, it shows the indigenous rural areas of Guatemala during the crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. A special UN report reveals that Latin American and Caribbean countries face the highest per capita levels of Covid-19; in addition to a fall in its economy of 9.1 percent for the region in 2020, which will undoubtedly be the largest in 100 years, which will translate into 45 million more people living in poverty compared to last year, affecting more the countries of Mexico, Nicaragua and Guatemala.

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Global development cooperation in a COVID-19 world

Homi Kharas

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

A freight train of China COSCO Shipping Co., Ltd. running from Nanchang to Moscow is pictured before departing from a railway station in Nanchang city, east China's Jiangxi province, 20 Apil 2018.East China's Jiangxi province has launched a new freight train route to Russia. A train carrying clothes, electrical products and suitcases left Nanchang city on Friday (20 April 2018) for Moscow. It is the first freight train linking the city with Europe. The 10,000-kilometer trip will take 15 days, and run every week from June, according to local railway authorities. The new freight route will promote the foreign trade of Nanchang city. Demand for rail freight between China and Europe, an alternative to slower and riskier ocean shipping and costlier air cargo, has exploded in recent years.No Use China. No Use France.

Future Development

On the changing asymmetry of global spillovers

Rabah Arezki and Yang Liu

Friday, June 19, 2020

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Currency symbols float over a map of Africa

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Illicit financial flows in Africa: Drivers, destinations, and policy options

Landry Signé, Mariama Sow, and Payce Madden

Monday, March 2, 2020

Passersby are reflected on a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato - RC1DCEB91510

Global Economy

October 2019 update to TIGER: Sliding into synchronized stagnation

Eswar Prasad and Ethan Wu

Sunday, October 13, 2019

A general view of factories in the industrial district of Jurong in western Singapore April 4, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su - D1AESWJXHQAA

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Economic growth strategies beyond neoliberalism: Do we need new models for the 21st century?

Danny Leipziger

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Supporters of Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wait outside the headquarters of the electoral authority where Lopez Obrador will be formally installed as the countrys next president, in Mexico City, Mexico August 8, 2018. REUTERS/Gustavo Graf - RC11B8289710

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Introduction: Beyond neoliberalism in emerging markets

Geoffrey Gertz and Homi Kharas

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

An aerial photo shows one of a pair of tugboats escorting the Cap Jackson container ship, registered in Singapore, at Harbor Island at the Port of Seattle in Seattle, Washington, U.S.

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April 2019 update to TIGER: World economy lurches from uneven recovery to synchronized slowdown

Eswar Prasad

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Blog Posts

A building and a sculpture are reflected on glass in a wealthy neighborhood, during a general quarantine imposed due to a surge of fresh coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, in Santiago, Chile May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Future Development

Financing and debt management for emerging market economies

José Antonio Ocampo

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

A group of residents of the Chapeu Mangueira slum, prepares food for distribute it to homeless people in Copacabana neighborhood during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Landau TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Future Development

Solving both the short- and long-term COVID-19 crises

Mahmoud Mohieldin and Michael Kelleher

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

People are pictured in front of closed shops of a market, as the authorities prepare to disinfect the markets amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Future Development

What to do about the coming debt crisis in developing countries

Homi Kharas

Monday, April 13, 2020

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