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The World Bank Economic Review is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, [1] development economics journal. It publishes a on a wide range of development related economics topics with an intended audience of both economists and other social scientists.
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low-and middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development. [6] The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA ...
Richard Andreas Werner (born 5 January 1967) is a German banking and development economist who is a university professor at University of Winchester.. He has proposed the "Quantity Theory of Credit", or "Quantity Theory of Disaggregated Credit", which disaggregates credit creation that are used for the real economy (GDP transactions), on the one hand, and financial transactions, on the other ...
Development economics also includes topics such as third world debt, and the functions of such organisations as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. In fact, the majority of development economists are employed by, do consulting with, or receive funding from institutions like the IMF and the World Bank. [ 22 ]
Chapter in the Global Competitiveness Report 2004–2005, World Economic Forum, Geneva, October 2004; Investment Climate around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey (with G. Batra & Stone A.). The World Bank, 2003. The Quality of Growth (with V. Thomas and co-authors). The World Bank, 2000.
The World Bank Institute is the capacity development branch of the World Bank, providing learning and other capacity-building programs to member countries. The IBRD has 189 member governments, and the other institutions have between 153 and 184. [2] The institutions of the World Bank Group are all run by a board of governors meeting once a year ...
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.
Shiller was awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics in 2009 for his pioneering research in the field of financial economics, relating to the dynamics of asset prices, such as fixed income, equities, and real estate, and their metrics. His work has been influential in the development of the theory as well as its implications for ...