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152797: Recovery from the Pandemic Crisis: Balancing Short-Term and Long-Term Concerns

Norman Loayza, Apurva Sanghi, Nurlina Binti Shaharuddin and Lucie Johanna Wuester

152015: Global Integration Is More Important than Ever to Contain the Economic and Health Fallout and Exit the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis

Stewart Nixon

150920: Fiscal Rules in Times of Crisis

Mahama Samir Bandaogo

148535: Costs and Trade-Offs in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Developing Country Perspective

Norman Loayza

148259: Causes and Impacts of Job Displacements and Public Policy Responses

Achim Schmillen

148256: An Opportunity to Build Legitimacy and Trust in Public Institutions in the Time of COVID-19

Stuti Khemani

147609: Sudden Influxes of Resource Wealth to the Economy: Avoiding"Dutch Disease"

Fabian Mendez Ramos

147598: Financing Firms in Hibernation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tatiana Didier Brandao, Federico Huneeus, Mauricio Larrain and Sergio Schmukler

147504: How Two Tests Can Help Contain COVID-19 and Revive the Economy

Damien de Walque, Jed Friedman, Roberta V. Gatti and Aaditya Mattoo

147291: Macroeconomic Policy in the Time of COVID-19: A Primer for Developing Countries

Norman Loayza and Steven Michael Pennings

145050: The Fight against Corruption: Taming Tigers and Swatting Flies

Lay Lian Chuah, Norman Loayza and C. Bernard Myers

143463: Using Big Data to Expand Financial Services: Benefits and Risks

Facundo Abraham, Sergio Schmukler and José Tessada

142846: How Do Cultural Differences Affect Trade Reciprocity between Developed and Developing Countries?

J.P. Singh

139479: Structural Change Rediscovered: The Role of Human and Physical Capital

Pedro Miguel Gaspar Martins

138280: Financial Innovation and Additionality: The Power of Economic Analysis and Data Analytics

Facundo Abraham, Sergio Schmukler and José Tessada

138279: Improving Governance through Enhanced Citizen Engagement: The Case of Malaysia

Shahridan Faiez Bin Mohideen Abdul Kader and Vijayendra Rao

134881: Robo-Advisors: Investing through Machines

Facundo Abraham, Sergio Schmukler and José Tessada

133110: Informality: Why Is It So Widespread and How Can It Be Reduced?

Norman Loayza

132195: Fiscal Space: Concept, Measurement, and Policy Implications

Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara

130976: Corporate Borrowing in Emerging Markets: Fairly Long Term, but Only for a Few

Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Tatiana Didier Brandao and Sergio Schmukler

130415: When is a Current Account Deficit Bad?

Sharmila Devadas and Norman Loayza

129680: The Future of Work: Race with-not against-the Machine

Lay Lian Chuah, Norman Loayza and Achim Schmillen

126031: Financial integration in East Asia and Pacific: regional and interregional linkages

Ruth Llovet Montanes and Sergio Schmukler

125038: The Fintech Revolution: A Threat to Global Banking?

Juan Jose Cortina Lorente and Sergio Schmukler

124552: The Drive toward Universal Health Coverage

Young Eun Kim and Norman Loayza

123899: Global trade: slowdown, factors, and policies

Dorina Peteva Georgieva, Norman Loayza and Fabian Mendez Ramos

121486: Are public credit guarantees worth the hype?

Facundo Abraham, Sergio L. Schmukler, Facundo Abraham and Sergio L. Schmukler

120691: A new role for development banks?

Sergio Schmukler

120333: Addressing the SME finance problem

Facundo Abraham, Sergio L. Schmukler, Facundo Abraham and Sergio L. Schmukler

117146: Enhancing the quality of public service delivery: insights from recent research

Michael Woolcock

114829: Open Data: Differences and Implications across Countries

Lay Lian Chuah and Norman Loayza

113185: Threat or help?: the effects of unskilled immigrant workers on national productivity growth

Sharmila Devadas and Sharmila Devadas

112195: Measurement and patterns of world agribusiness trade

Fabian Mendez Ramos, Nina Paustian, Fabian Mendez Ramos and Nina Paustian

109374: Should We Fear Foreign Exchange Depreciation?

Norman Loayza and Fabian Mendez-Ramos

108092: Productivity as the Key to Economic Growth and Development

Young Eun Kim, Norman Loayza and Claudia Meza-Cuadra

104231: Structural transformation of the agricultural sector: a primer

Raian Divanbeigi, Nina Paustian, Norman V. Loayza, Raian Divanbeigi, Nina Paustian and Norman V. Loayza

104230: The Middle-Income Trap: Myth or Reality?

Greg Larson, Norman Loayza and Michael Woolcock