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World Bank
Other•Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States•
About: World Bank is a other organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poverty. The organization has 7813 authors who have published 21594 publications receiving 1198361 citations. The organization is also known as: World Bank, WB & The World Bank.
Topics: Population, Poverty, Developing country, Free trade, Productivity
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defined the assets of the urban poor in terms of an "asset vulnerability framework" and showed that the poor are managers of complex asset portfolios, and illustrate how asset management affects household poverty and vulnerability.
1,742 citations
TL;DR: This article showed that there is a strong negative relationship between initial inequality in the asset distribution and long-term growth, and that policies that increase aggregate investment and facilitate acquisition of assets by the poor might be doubly beneficial for growth and poverty reduction.
1,739 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the sources of growth in the period 1964-1973 for a group of semi-industrialized less developed countries and developed an analytical framework, incorporating the possibility that marginal factor productivities are not equal in the export and non-export sectors of the economy.
1,714 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess two broad and competing theories of government regulation: the helping hand approach, according to which governments regulate to correct market failures, and the grabbing-hand approach according to where government regulates to support political constituency.
1,665 citations
Mohammad H. Forouzanfar1, Lily Alexander1, H. Ross Anderson2, Victoria F Bachman1 +718 more•Institutions (295)
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) as mentioned in this paper provides a timely opportunity to update the comparative risk assessment with new data for exposure, relative risks, and evidence on the appropriate counterfactual risk distribution.
1,656 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph E. Stiglitz | 164 | 1142 | 152469 |
| Barry M. Popkin | 157 | 751 | 90453 |
| Dan J. Stein | 142 | 1727 | 132718 |
| Asli Demirguc-Kunt | 137 | 429 | 78166 |
| Elinor Ostrom | 126 | 430 | 104959 |
| David Scott | 124 | 1561 | 82554 |
| Ross Levine | 122 | 398 | 108067 |
| Barry Eichengreen | 116 | 949 | 51073 |
| Martin Ravallion | 115 | 570 | 55380 |
| Kenneth H. Mayer | 115 | 1351 | 64698 |
| Angus Deaton | 110 | 363 | 66325 |
| Timothy Besley | 103 | 368 | 45988 |
| Lawrence H. Summers | 102 | 285 | 58555 |
| Shang-Jin Wei | 101 | 415 | 39112 |
| Thorsten Beck | 99 | 373 | 62708 |