Author/Editor: Oksana Dynnikova, Annette J Kyobe, Slavi T Slavov.

Release Date:May, 2021

This paper examines how regional disparities have evolved in Russia and how Russia's system of intergovernmental fiscal relations is managing these disparities. Regional disparities have fallen over more...

Author/Editor: Ratna Sahay, Martin Cihak, Papa M N'Diaye, Adolfo Barajas, Annette J Kyobe, Srobona Mitra, Yen N Mooi, Reza Yousefi.

Release Date:September, 2017

Using a new dataset, we measure the large gap between the representation of men and women in leadership positions in banks and bank supervision agencies worldwide. Women occupied less than 2 percent more...

Author/Editor: Alexander Culiuc, Annette J Kyobe.

Release Date:August, 2017

Empirical research on structural reforms has focused primarily on their impact on growth and productivity. Yet an often-invoked rationale for structural reforms is their impact on external more...

Author/Editor: Era Dabla-Norris, Giang Ho, Annette Kyobe.

Release Date:February, 2016

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier more...

Author/Editor: Ratna Sahay, Martin Cihak, Papa N'Diaye, Adolfo Barajas, Srobona Mitra, Annette Kyobe, Yen Mooi, Reza Yousefi.

Release Date:September, 2015

Using several recently available global datasets, this Staff Discussion Note examines macroeconomic effects of financial inclusion. It finds significant benefits to economic growth from financial more...

Author/Editor: Christian Ebeke, Annette Kyobe.

Release Date:June, 2015

Foreign holdings of emerging markets (EMs) government bonds have increasedsubstantially over the last decade. While foreign participation in local-currency sovereignbond markets provides an more...

Author/Editor: Ratna Sahay, Martin Cihak, Papa M N'Diaye, Adolfo Barajas, Diana B Ayala Pena, Ran Bi, Yuan Gao, Annette J Kyobe, Lam Nguyen, Christian Saborowski, Katsiaryna Svirydzenka, Seyed Reza Yousefi.

Release Date:May, 2015

The global financial crisis experience shone a spotlight on the dangers of financial systems that have grown too big too fast. This note reexamines financial deepening, focusing on what emerging more...

Author/Editor: Luis M Cubeddu, Alexander Culiuc, Ghada Fayad, Yuan Gao, Kalpana Kochhar, Annette J Kyobe, Ceyda Oner, Roberto Perrelli, Sarah Sanya, Evridiki Tsounta, Zhongxia Zhang.

Release Date:June, 2014

After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now more...

Author/Editor: Era Dabla-Norris, Giang Ho, Kalpana Kochhar, Annette J Kyobe, Robert Tchaidze.

Release Date:September, 2013

Fostering and sustaining robust economic growth is an imperative across advanced, emerging, and low-income countries alike. Countries will need to focus on supply-side reforms to raise their more...

Author/Editor: Zac Mills, Annette Kyobe, Jim Brumby, Chris Papageorgiou, Era Dabla-Norris.

Release Date:February, 2011

This paper introduces a new index that captures the institutional environment underpinning public investment management across four different stages: project appraisal, selection, implementation, and more...