This update introduces Bangladesh's new poverty numbers at $1.90 per capita per day in 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) prices, followed by an account of recent economic development, the outlook, risks...
South Asia has benefitted from low oil prices and has proved resilient to the recent turmoil in international markets. The region’s growth prospects are strong and India confirms its position as the fastest-growing...
This report presents the main findings of the survey and is organized as follows: Chapter I details the sampling procedure and survey methodology employed. Chapter two gives an overview of the flow mechanism...
An uneven recovery and diverging monetary policy across major developed countries remain a challenge for developing and emerging market economies. But plunging oil prices bring in real income shifts and...
This paper studies a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows researchers to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing...
The Indonesia economic quarterly reports on and synthesizes the past three months’ key developments in Indonesia’s economy. It places them in a longer-term and global context, and assesses the implications...
A decade ago, in 1998, Indonesia experienced a severe economic crisis that resulted in the economic dislocation of millions of households, a sharp rise in poverty, a 13 percent decline in Gross Domestic...
This overview of the Indonesian Economic Quarterly covers Indonesia's experience with its economic deceleration which occurred relatively recently. It asserts that the downturn of the economy was more...
The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant for inequality and poverty. Drawing on analyses based on existing household survey...