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World Bank

OtherWashington 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.


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TL;DR: This paper investigated the extent to which poverty is in fact urbanizing in the developing world and what role urbanization of the population has played in overall poverty reduction, concluding that a majority of the world's poor will still live in rural areas for many decades to come.
Abstract: This paper probes into the empirical roots of the debate as to whether poverty is now indeed mainly an urban problem. It aims to throw new light on the extent to which poverty is in fact urbanizing in the developing world and what role urbanization of the population has played in overall poverty reduction. The study reports its results in studying a new data set created for this paper, covering about 90 developing countries with observations over time for about 80% of them. The authors conclude, however, that the recent pace of urbanization and current forecasts for urban population growth imply that a majority of the world's poor will still live in rural areas for many decades to come.

366 citations

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TL;DR: The authors provided a critical review and new analysis of subjective expectations data from developing countries and found that people in developing countries can generally understand and answer probabilistic questions, such questions are not prohibitive in time to ask, and the expectations are useful predictors of future behavior and economic decisions.

365 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of the Uruguay Round are quantified using a numerical general equilibrium model which incorporates increasing returns to scale, 24 regions, 22 commodities, and steady state growth effects.
Abstract: The effects of the Uruguay Round are quantified using a numerical general equilibrium model which incorporates increasing returns to scale, 24 regions, 22 commodities, and steady state growth effects. We conclude that the aggregate welfare gains from the Round are in the order of 96 billion per year in the short run, but could be as high as 171 billion per year in the long run after capital stocks have optimally adjusted. Despite these global gains, we identify some developing countries that lose from the Round in the short run. In the long run, almost all gain, and the Round will allow developing countries to gain further through their own unilateral liberalisation. Available as the journal article at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/ecoj

365 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize 11 critiques offered by four recent papers and then refute them as either conceptually incorrect or empirically unsubstantiated, concluding that these critiques are either false or incomplete.
Abstract: The Worldwide Governance Indicators, reporting estimates of six dimensions of governance for over 200 countries between 1996 and 2005, have become widely used among policymakers and academics. They have also attracted some explicit written criticisms. In this short paper the authors synthesize 11 critiques offered by four recent papers. They then refute them as either conceptually incorrect or empirically unsubstantiated.

364 citations

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TL;DR: The authors' estimates are crude, but despite their limitations, they give a more accurate picture of changes in attributable mortality among the world's poor than do the global averages in current use.

364 citations


Authors

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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Joseph E. Stiglitz1641142152469
Barry M. Popkin15775190453
Dan J. Stein1421727132718
Asli Demirguc-Kunt13742978166
Elinor Ostrom126430104959
David Scott124156182554
Ross Levine122398108067
Barry Eichengreen11694951073
Martin Ravallion11557055380
Kenneth H. Mayer115135164698
Angus Deaton11036366325
Timothy Besley10336845988
Lawrence H. Summers10228558555
Shang-Jin Wei10141539112
Thorsten Beck9937362708
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Performance
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202330
202281
2021491
2020594
2019604
2018637