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Online outsourcing: A global job opportunity for everyone?
“My life has totally changed. Now I am earning money from the Internet and I come to know a lot of new things. Internet is really amazing.” - Male, from Madurai, India, Age between 16-25, intermediate...
View ArticleEstonia’s digital dividends
Digital technology dominates our everyday lives, and with each passing day, even more so. How can the global community benefit from the new digital era? The World Bank’s World Development Report2016...
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#GenderMatters: From digital divides to digital dividends
Eighty percent of the population in developing countries owns a mobile phone, but—according to the most recent report on the subject by the global association of mobile operators, GSMA—more than 1.7...
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Demography should guide policies in the world’s centers of poverty and fragility
What role could demographic policy play in the countries with the highest poverty rates and the lowest level of human development, which often also suffer most from conflict and violence? A crucial...
View ArticleGlobal economic prospects: sluggish emerging market activity to weigh on...
Global economic growth is projected to pick up modestly in 2016 to 2.9 percent after a disappointing 2015, the January 2016 Global Economic Prospects report says. Growth slowed last year to a 2.4...
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Myth or fact? New WDR examines the potential of digital technologies for...
Pop quiz: Which of these statements do you agree with? If you build “IT” they will come.Poor people don’t need mobile phones. They need clean water and food instead.Digital skills are only relevant...
View ArticleWhy have the digital revolution’s broader benefits fallen short for development?
The rapid spread of digital technologies has been a development success. But has it also resulted in successful development? No, not when the basic foundations of economic development are missing,...
View ArticleHow corruption hurts innovation in smaller firms
Firms invest in innovations if they expect future benefits from these investments. Patents and quality certificates are means for firms to claim such exclusive gains. However, in order to obtain...
View ArticleGlobal Economic Prospects January 2016: Regional integration and spillovers
A key risk to global growth in 2016 is that a number of emerging markets slow simultaneously. Following a decade of deepening integration among emerging markets and developing countries, weakness in a...
View ArticleLive longer, work longer?
Imagine yourself on a comfy seat like the ones they give to ministers. But do not get too cozy as you are about to make a difficult decision. Population is aging in your country, and there simply is...
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Is Poverty Seasonal?
Many countries measure poverty using annualized survey data generated on the basis of a one-time “snapshot” of household consumption. Such designs gather information for a single period of reference of...
View ArticleEducation is the topic for the new World Development Report
Education is central to improving human welfare and to achieving the goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Schooling was recognized as vital to achieving the MDGs, and...
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How persistent is poverty in the short run?
Poverty is often measured using repeated cross-sectional surveys that provide a snapshot of the poverty status of a given household at a particular point in time. Such designs call for interviewing...
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How land rights institutions affect the path to productive urbanization
The industrial revolution in Western Europe and North America soon triggered both increased urbanization and accelerated economic development, placing countries in these regions onto paths of sustained...
View ArticleWhat can we learn from land and financial allocation in India?
Factor Allocation and Growth A central challenge for developing countries is to promote growth by reducing the misallocation of factors of production—labor, capital and land. While there may not be...
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Has e-government improved governance? Not yet.
Digital connectivity is viewed by many in technology and development circles as central to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). Luminaries supporting the Connectivity Declaration are...
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Can paternity leave benefit working women in developing countries?
In recent years, a spate of articles came out proclaiming the benefits of paternity leave. One article by the New York Times cited a study in Sweden that stated that mother’s future earnings increased...
View ArticleHandling volatile capital flows--the Indian experience
Capital flows to emerging economies are considered to be volatile. Influenced as much by global liquidity and risk aversion as by economic conditions in receiving countries, capital flows move in a...
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Harnessing the data revolution and improving land management through...
Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, and ultimately reduce poverty...
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Does governing law affect bond spreads?
Conventionally the governing law should not affect the cost of borrowing in international markets. If it did, borrowers would use the cheaper jurisdiction. Also, if somehow the spread differed at the...
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