 | Financial Inclusion : Zooming in on Latin America Author/Editor: Era Dabla-Norris, Yixi Deng, Anna Ivanova, Izabela Karpowicz, Filiz Unsal, Eva VanLeemput, Joyce Wong. Release Date:September, 2015 Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have made important strides in promoting financial inclusion of firms and households. However, while the region is broadly at par with its peers on more...
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| Household Financial Access and Risk Sharing in Nigeria Author/Editor: Stacy Carlson, Era Dabla-Norris, Mika Saito, Yu Shi. Release Date:July, 2015 We examine the role of household financial access in determining the extent of risksharingin Nigeria using household-level panel data. We estimate changes in the responseof consumption to shocks for more...
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 | Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality : A Global Perspective Author/Editor: Era Dabla-Norris, Kalpana Kochhar, Nujin Suphaphiphat, Frantisek Ricka, Evridiki Tsounta. Release Date:June, 2015 This paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers, and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary widely amongst countries, with some common drivers more...
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| The New Normal: A Sector-level Perspective on Productivity Trends in Advanced Economies Author/Editor: Era Dabla-Norris, Si Guo, Vikram Haksar, Minsuk Kim, Kalpana Kochhar, Kevin Wiseman, Aleksandra Zdzienicka. Release Date:March, 2015 Total factor productivity growth was stagnant or slowing in many advanced countries even prior to the crisis. This paper documents sector-level productivity patterns across advanced economies prior more...
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| Identifying Constraints to Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP and Inequality : A Structural Framework for Policy Author/Editor: Era Dabla-Norris, Yan Ji, Robert Townsend, Filiz D Unsal. Release Date:January, 2015 We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents to identify pertinent constraints to financial inclusion. We evaluate quantitatively the policy impacts of relaxing each more...
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| Credit Booms and Macroeconomic Dynamics : Stylized Facts and Lessons for Low-Income Countries Author/Editor: Marco Arena, Serpil Bouza, Era Dabla-Norris, Kerstin Gerling, Lamin Njie. Release Date:January, 2015 Using a comprehensive database on bank credit, covering 135 developing countries over the period 1960–2011, we identify, document, and compare the macro-economic dynamics of credit booms across more...
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| National Income and Its Distribution Author/Editor: Markus Bruckner, Era Dabla-Norris, Mark Gradstein. Release Date:June, 2014 Does the distribution of income within a country become more equal as it grows richer? This paper uses plausibly exogenous variations in trade-weighted world income and international oil price shocks more...
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| Anchoring Growth : The Importance of Productivity-Enhancing Reforms in Emerging Market and Developing Economies 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...
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| Benchmarking Structural Transformation Across the World Author/Editor: Era Dabla-Norris, Alun H Thomas, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Yingyuan Chen. Release Date:July, 2013 This paper documents stylized facts on the process of structural transformation around the world and empirically analyzes its determinants using data on real value added by sector of economic more...
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 | Too Cold, Too Hot, Or Just Right? Assessing Financial Sector Development Across the Globe Author/Editor: Adolfo Barajas, Thorsten Beck, Era Dabla-Norris, Reza Yousefi. Release Date:March, 2013 This paper introduces the concept of the financial possibility frontier as a constrained optimum level of financial development to gauge the relative performance of financial systems across the more...
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